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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786052803321

Titolo

De-centering Cold War history : local and global change / / edited by Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney and Fabio Lanza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-18407-4

0-415-63640-X

1-283-99439-9

0-203-08327-X

1-136-18408-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LanzaFabio <1967->

MooneyJadwiga E. Pieper

Disciplina

909.82/5

Soggetti

Cold War - Political aspects

Cold War - Social aspects

Cold War - Economic aspects

History, Modern - 1945-1989

World politics - 1945-1989

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Thermonuclear weapons and tuna : testing, protest, and knowledge in Japan / Ann Sherif -- The cold war and transnational links : Indonesian women and the global anti-imperialist movement, 1949-1966 / Katharine McGregor -- Fighting fascism and forging new political activism : the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) in the cold war / Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney -- Cold war happiness : singing pioneers, internal enemies and Hungarian life under Stalinism / László Kürti -- New men of power : Jack Tenney, Ronald Reagan, and postwar labor anticommunism / Jennifer Luff -- Female terrorists and vigilant citizens : gender, citizenship and cold war direct democracy / Dominique Grisard -- Making sense of "China" during the cold war : global Maoism and Asian studies / Fabio Lanza -- Anti-communist entrepreneurs and the anti-"peace" campaigns in Latin America /



Patrick Iber -- A "new man" for Africa? : some particularities of the Marxist homem novo within Angolan cultural policy / Delinda Collier -- The cold war and Orange County / Dimitri Papandreu.

Sommario/riassunto

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 inter