Format:
Online-Ressource (245 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780415636391
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De-Centering Cold War History challenges the Cold War master narratives that focus on super-power politics by shifting our analytical perspective to include local-level experiences and regional initiatives that were crucial to the making of a Cold War world. Cold War histories are often told as stories of national leaders, state policies and the global confrontation that pitted a Communist Eastern Bloc against a Capitalist West. Taking a new analytical approach this book reveals unexpected complexities in the historical trajectory of the Cold War. Contributions from an international group of s
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Cover; De-Centering Cold War History: Local and Global Change; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: De-centering Cold War history; Part I Cold War activisms: Crossing borders and building bridges; 1 Thermonuclear weapons and tuna: Testing, protest, and knowledge in Japan; 2 The Cold War, Indonesian women and the global anti-imperialist movement, 1946-65; 3 Fighting fascism and forging new political activism: The Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) in the Cold War
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Part II Separating enemies from friends: communism, anti-communism, and the construction of Cold War realities4 Cold War happiness: Singing pioneers, internal enemies and Hungarian life under Stalinism; 5 New men of power: Jack Tenney, Ronald Reagan, and postwar labor anticommunism; 6 Female terrorists and vigilant citizens Gender, citizenship and Cold War direct-democracy; Part III Rethinking opposition and conformity; 7 Making sense of "China" during the Cold War: Global Maoism and Asian studies; 8 Anti-Communist entrepreneurs and the origins of the cultural Cold War in Latin America
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9 A "new man" for Africa?: Some particularities of the Marxist Homem Novo within Angolan cultural policy10 The Cold War and Orange County; Index;
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Thermonuclear weapons and tuna : testing, protest, and knowledge in Japan
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The cold war and transnational links : Indonesian women and the global anti-imperialist movement, 1949-1966
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Fighting fascism and forging new political activism : the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) in the cold war
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Cold war happiness : singing pioneers, internal enemies and Hungarian life under Stalinism
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New men of power : Jack Tenney, Ronald Reagan, and postwar labor anticommunism
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Female terrorists and vigilant citizens : gender, citizenship and cold war direct democracy
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Making sense of "China" during the cold war : global Maoism and Asian studies
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Anti-communist entrepreneurs and the anti-"peace" campaigns in Latin America
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A "new man" for Africa? : some particularities of the Marxist homem novo within Angolan cultural policy
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The cold war and Orange County
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415636391
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe De-Centering Cold War History Local and Global Change
Language:
English
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