Cool comfort: America's romance with air-conditioning
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Washington [u.a.]
Smithsonian Institution Press
2002
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-207) and index |
| Physical Description: | IX, 214 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 1588340406 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
1
1
The Coldward Course of Progress
8
2
No Calcutta
27
3
Pleasures and Palaces
4з
4
Cooling the Body Politic
62
5
Always Fair Weather
77
6
No Place Like Home
юз
7
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
ш
8
And the Air-Conditioned Malaise iss
Conclusion
182
Notes
185
Illustration Credits
208
Index
211
AMERICA S ROMANCE
WITH AIR-CONDITIONING
The year
2002
marks the 100th anniversary
of the first installation of air-conditioning.
During the past century, it has become a
staple of American life;
83
percent of U.S.
homes are now air-conditioned. In this
engaging social history, Marsha
Acker¬
mann
explores how the idea of cooling
became firmly embedded in the social per¬
ceptions and expectations of Americans,
transforming our definition of comfort and
the ways we live, work, and play.
Most people first encountered air-con¬
ditioning in movie palaces and department
stores during the
1920s,
as well as in the
futuristic World s Fair exhibits of the
1930s.
However, the growth of suburbia
during the
1940s
and early
1950s
made
air-conditioning a must-have for middle-
class Americans, a potent symbol of the
American way of life.
Ackermann
exam¬
ines this expansion in detail, as well as the
backlash from critics such as Lewis
Mumford and Henry Miller, who viewed
air-conditioning as an example of how
American culture fosters waste and cele¬
brates impersonal, centralized systems.
Today, America
is the most air-condi¬
tioned nation in the world. Yet
Ackermann
concludes that the promise of air-condi¬
tioning remains unfulfilled as inner-city
heat waves continue to claim lives and
energy concerns persist. As with many
technologies, air-conditioning as a solution
is instead viewed by many as part of the
problem.
*BOVT HU AtfTMO*
Marsha E.
Ackermann
lectures in history
at Eastern Michigan University.
ON THE COVER: Top, arctic
décor
of a Chicago
movie theater
ін
1940;
photo by John Vachon, FSA-
OWI Photograph Collection, Library of Congress,
ЬС-ШРЗЗ-ОШЭбЗ-МЗ.
Bottom, Unconditional
Surrender
advertisement for the Carrier
Corporation from the Saturday Evening Post,
1950;
N.
W.
Ayer
Advertising Agency Records, Archives
Center, National Museum of American History,
courtesy of Carrier Corporation, a Member of the
United Technologies Corporation Family.
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