Format:
x, 254 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780271097404
Series Statement:
Perspectives on sensory history
Content:
The longest political conflict of the twentieth century, the Cold War, was carried out on the human senses – and through them. Largely conducted through nonlethal methods, it was a war of competing cultures, politics, and covert operations. While propaganda reached targets through vision and hearing, sensory warfare also exploited taste, touch, smell, and pain. This volume is the first to explore the sensory aspect of the Cold War and how this warfare changed contemporary perception of the war.
Content:
The authors highlight the global dimension of sensory warfare, examining battlegrounds around the world and across different phases of the conflict, including “cold” and “hot” warfare – both covert and overt. Case studies highlight the role of taste in Western food deliveries to Eastern Europe; olfaction in Poland, at the Iron Curtain, and in the Vietnam War; sonic warfare in Berlin, in Romania, and at the China-Taiwan “aquatic frontier”; vision in the Maoist Cultural Revolution, Spain, and the Soviet-Afghan war; haptics in the German military; and drugs, pain, and sensory deprivation in intelligence operations in both Hungary and the United States. In its wide-ranging treatment, this volume offers an illuminating new perspective on the Cold War and deepens our understanding of the sensory aspects of current and future conflicts.
Content:
This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of sensory studies, Cold War studies, twentieth-century history, and military history. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Cyril Cordoba, Mark Fenemore, Walter E. Grunden, Dayton Lekner, José Manuel López Torán, Markus Mirschel, Victoria Phillips, Carsten Richter, Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Christy Spackman, and Stephanie Weismann.
Content:
"Examines how the Cold War used and changed human sensoria in different stages of the conflict from partition to propaganda and secret warfare, and contributes to a better understanding of sensory aspects in ongoing and future conflicts"--
Note:
Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register
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Introduction : sensory warfare in the global Cold War / Bodo Mrozek -- Chocolate paratroopers and Eisenhower packages for Eastern Europe : nourishing partition through color and taste / Victoria Phillips -- Between soir de Paris and red Moscow : olfactory front lines in Polish perfumery / Stephanie Weissman -- Beyond the bamboo curtain : sensing the Chinese cultural revolution / Cyril Cordoba -- Sensual sirens : gendering Berlin's Cold War telephony / Mark Fenemore -- Breaking the aquatic sound barrier : hearing yourself and your enemy across the Taiwan Strait / Dayton Lekner -- Listening to the voices of exile : Radio Free Europe in Romania / Andreea Deciu Ritivoi -- Hearing Korea, seeing Cuba : NO-DO as sonic and visual propaganda in Francoist Spain / José Manuel López Torán -- The smell of the Berlin Wall : olfactory border management at the inner-European frontier / Bodo Mrozek -- Hallucinated sensations : brainwashing and mind control in psychochemical CIA experiments / Walter E. Grunden -- To inform and deceive : sensory approaches in the military propaganda of Cold War Germany / Carsten Richter -- Sniffing the enemy : chemical detection during the Vietnam War / Christy Spackman -- Heroes at the Hindu Kush : seeing the Afghan War through the Soviet lens / Markus Mirschel.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780271098616
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Sensory warfare in the global Cold War University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024 ISBN 9780271098616
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0271098619
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Sensory warfare in the global Cold War University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024 ISBN 9780271098616
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Political Science
Keywords:
Ost-West-Konflikt
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Kriegführung
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Wahrnehmung
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Geschichte
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Mrozek, Bodo 1968-
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