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The 1950s
Chronicles historical events and personalities of the 1950s in a year-by-year account, focusing primarily on the United States, and including firsthand accounts from diaries, speeches, letters, and newspaper articles.
Everyday Elegance
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The Angry Decade
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Austria in the Nineteen Fifties
In American history the 1950s are remembered as an affluent and harmonious decade. Not so in Austria. That nation emerged out of World War II with tremendous war-related destruction and with a four-power occupation that would last for ten years until 1955. Massive American economic aid enabled the Austrian economy to start recovering in the 1950s and reorient it from East to West. Unlike the United States, however, general affluence did not set in until the 1960s and 1970s even though Austria's dramatic baby boom enabled it to recover from the demographic catastrophe resulting from manpower losses of World War II., This volume deals with these larger trends. Stephen E. Ambrose discusses Amer...
The Fifties Book
Pictorial history of the nineteen fifties.
Living in the Nineteen Fifties with Daisy Mavis Jenny and Me
If you grew up in the 1950's but have forgotten what it was like this is the book to read.In times when you had time, speed was more like a fast walk, everything got done in its own time.Money was scarce but children were happy, food was plain but flavoursome.Work was hard at home, as well as in the man's job, pay was just enough.Play was enjoyable and unhurried, holidays few, as were parties, Christmas and birthdays the highlights of the year.Growing up was leisurely, unhurried, disciplined, respectful and such a delight, there was no litter, clean streets fresh country air and birds, animals, flowers, butterflies and insects in abundance, nature was enjoyed and respected, but that was then, read what it was like and then look
Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture
In this book, Eleonora Ravizza analyzes how contemporary American popular culture has represented and reproduced the fifties. By investigating the cultural work of films and TV series from the last two decades, the book uncovers the inherent limitations of a ‘revisionist’ take on the fifties. Ravizza argues that, due to the visual nature of the fifties—crystallized in American consciousness through the widespread influence of television—most contemporary attempts to rework and rewrite the regressive gender, queer, and racial politics fall short of such a revisionist reevaluation.
Fabulous Fashions of the 1950s
"Discusses the fashions of the 1950s, including women's and men's clothing and hairstyles, accessories, trends and fads, and world events that influenced the fashion"--Provided by publisher.
