Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 302 p)
ISBN:
1299674402
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9781299674400
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9780199826131
Content:
Historians have long understood that the notion of ""the cold war"" is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union was a war that fell ambiguously short of war, an armed truce that produced considerable bloodshed. Yet scholars in the rapidly expanding field of Cold War studies have seldom paused to consider the conceptual and chronological foundations of the idea of the Cold War itself. In Uncertain Empire, a group of leading scholars takes up the challenge of making sense of the idea of the Cold War and its application to the writing of
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: PRISMS""; ""1. Cold War Degree Zero""; ""2. Exploring the Histories of the Cold War: A Pluralist Approach""; ""3. A History Best Served Cold""; ""4. Inventing Other Realities: What the Cold War Means for Literary Studies""; ""PART TWO: VISTAS""; ""5. The Geopolitical Vision: The Myth of an Outmatched USA""; ""6. War Envy and Amnesia: American Cold War Rewrites of Russia�s War""; ""7. The Spirit of Democracy: Religious Liberty and American Anti-Communism during the Cold War""
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""8. God, the Bomb, and the Cold War: The Religious and Ethical Debate Over Nuclear Weapons, 1945�1990""""9. Blues Under Siege: Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, and the Idea of America""; ""10. Cold War Culture and the Lingering Myth of Sacco and Vanzetti""; ""11. Deconstructing “Cold War Anthropology�""; ""12. Cognitive and Perceptual Training in the Cold War Man-Machine System""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1299670423
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199826148
Additional Edition:
Print version Uncertain Empire : American History and the Idea of the Cold War
Language:
English
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