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Kwon Heonik <1962-> |
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Titolo |
The other Cold War [[electronic resource] /] / Heonik Kwon |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-91930-X |
9786612919305 |
0-231-52670-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Collana |
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Columbia studies in international and global history |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cold War - Social aspects |
World politics - 1945-1989 |
History, Modern - 1945-1989 |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- The idea of the end -- Color lines of the twentieth century -- American orientalism -- The ambidextrous body -- The democratic family -- Rethinking postcolonial history -- Cold War culture in perspective -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the world and that the end of the war marked a radical, universal rupture in modern history.Incorporating comparative ethnographic study into a thorough analysis of the period, Kwon upends cherished ideas about the global and their hold on contemporary social science. His narrative describes the slow decomposition of a complex social and political order involving a number of local and culturally creative processes. While the nations of Europe and North America experienced the cold war as a time of "long peace," postcolonial nations entered a different reality altogether, characterized by vicious civil wars and other exceptional forms of violence. Arguing that these events should be integrated into any |
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