Format:
xi, 303 Seiten
,
Illlustrationen
ISBN:
9781784994402
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9781526131904
Series Statement:
Cultural history of modern war
Content:
Introduction: the Cold War as an imaginary war / Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann -- The apocalyptic fiction: shaping the future in the Cold War / Eva Horn -- Building peace, fearing the apocalypse? Nuclear danger in Soviet Cold War culture / Miriam Dobson -- Sixty years and counting: nuclear themes in American culture, 1945 to the present / Paul Boyer -- The imaginative landscape of nuclear war in Britain, 1945-65 / Matthew Grant -- German angst? Debating Cold War anxieties in West Germany, 1945-90 / Benjamin Ziemann -- After Hiroshima: Günther Anders and the history of anti-nuclear critique / Jason Dawsey -- Hiroshima/Nagasaki, civil rights and anti-war protest in Japan's Cold War / Ann Sherif -- Catholic anti-communism, the bomb and perceptions of apocalypse in West Germany and the USA, 1945-90 / Daniel Gerster -- "The nuclear arms race is psychological at its roots": physicians and their therapies for the Cold War / Claudia Kemper -- Imagining the apocalypse: nuclear winter in science and the world / Paul Rubinson -- Images of nuclear war in US government films from the early Cold War / Lars Nowak
Note:
Literaturangaben. - Index
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Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Understanding the imaginary war Manchester, Michigan : Manchester University Press, 2016 ISBN 9781526101327
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Political Science
Keywords:
Ost-West-Konflikt
;
Metapher
;
Atomare Rüstung
;
Kernwaffe
;
Symbol
;
Geschichte 1945-1990
;
USA
;
Sowjetunion
;
Deutschland
;
Japan
;
Atomkrieg
;
Gesellschaft
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Ziemann, Benjamin 1964-
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