Format:
xvi, 370 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781107136281
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Content:
Introduction : Between Accidental Armaggedons and Winnable Wars : Nuclear Threats and Nuclear Fears in the 1980s / Eckart Conze, Martin Klimke, Jeremy Varon -- Defining Threat: Nuclear Dangers and the Moral Imagination Nuclear Winter : Prophecies of Doom and Images of Desolation During the Second Cold War / Wilfried Mausbach -- Atomic Nightmares and Biological Citizens at Three Mile Island / Natasha Zaretsky -- Missile Bases as Concentration Camps : The Role of National Socialism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust in the West German Discourse on Nuclear Armament / Eckart Conze -- Will You Sing About the Missiles? : British Anti-Nuclear Protest Music of the 1980s / William Knoblauch -- From Artists for Peace to the Green Caterpillar : Cultural Activism and Electoral Politics in 1980s West Germany / Laura Stapane and Martin Klimke -- A Tenuous Peace : International Anti-Nuclear Activism in the East German Writers Union in the 1980s / Thomas Goldstein -- The Example of Wyhl : How Grassroots Protest in the Rhine Valley Shaped the West German Anti-Nuclear Movement / Stephen Milder -- No Nukes and Front Porch Politics : Environmental Protest Culture and Practice on the Second Cold War Home Front / Michael Foley -- Global Micropolitics : Towards a Transnational History of Grassroots Nuclear Free Zones / Susanne Schregel -- "We Envisage a European-Wide Campaign, In Which Every Kind of Exchange Takes Place" : European Nuclear Disarmament in the West European Peace Movement of the 1980s / Patrick Burke -- A Case of Hollanditis : The Interchurch Peace Council in the Netherlands and the Christian Peace Movement in Western Europe / Sebastian Kalden -- Peace through Strength? : The Impact of the Antinuclear Uprising on the Carter and Reagan Administrations / Lawrence Wittner -- Did Protest Matter? : The Influence of the Peace Movement on the West German Government and the Social Democratic Party, 1977-1983 / Tim Geiger and Jan Hansen -- Why is there no Accidental Armageddon Discourse in France? : How Defence Intellectuals, Peace Movements, and Public Opinion Rethought the Cold War During the Euromissile Crisis / Katrin Ruecker -- Building Trust : The G7 Summits and International Leadership in Nuclear Politics / Enrico Boehm
Note:
"This book originated in a global conference in 2010, "Accidental Armageddons: The Nuclear Crisis and the Culture of the Second Cold War, 1975-1989." Hosted by the German Historical Institute (GHI), the gathering was co-sponsored by National Security Archive, and the New School for Social Research/Eugene Lang College."--Acknowledgements
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Introduction : between accidental armageddons and winnable wars: nuclear threats and nuclear fears in the 1980s
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Part I: Defining threat : nuclear dangers and the moral imagination -- 1 Nuclear winter : prophecies of doom and images of desolation during the Second Cold War
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2 Atomic nightmares and biological citizens at Three Mile Island
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3 Missile bases as concentration camps : the role of National Socialism, the Second World War, and the Holocaust in the West German discourse on nuclear armament
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Part II: Popular culture -- 4 "Will you sing about the missiles?" : British antinuclear protest music of the 1980s
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5 From Artists for Peace to the Green Caterpillar : cultural activism and electoral politics in 1980s West Germany
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6 A tenuous peace : international antinuclear activism in the East German Writers Union during the 1980s
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Part III: Local and transnational activism -- 7 The "Example of Wyhl" : how grassroots protest in the Rhine Valley shaped West Germany's antinuclear movement
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8 No Nukes and front porch politics : environmental protest culture and practice on the Second Cold War home front
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9 Global micropolitics : toward a transnational history of grassroots nuclear-free zones
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10 European Nuclear Disarmament : transnational peace campaigning in the 1980s
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11 A case of Hollanditis : the Interchurch Peace Council in the Netherlands and the Christian peace movement in Western Europe
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Part IV: The challenge for high politics -- 12 Peace through strength? : the impact of the antinuclear uprising on the Carter and Reagan administrations
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13 Did protest matter? the influence of the peace movement on the West German government and the Social Democratic Party, 1977-1983
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14 Why was there no "accidental armageddon" discourse in France? how defense intellectuals, peace movements, and public opinion rethought the Cold War during the Euromissile crisis
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Building trust : the G7 summits and international leadership in nuclear politics
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
USA
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Europa
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Ost-West-Konflikt
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Atomare Rüstung
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Antikernkraftbewegung
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Geschichte 1975-1989
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzsammelwerk
;
Historische Darstellung
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Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Varon, Jeremy 1969-
Author information:
Klimke, Martin 1977-
Author information:
Conze, Eckart 1963-
