LEADER 02830nam 2200349 450 001 9910597883903321 005 20230217232122.0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000502397 035 $a(NjHacI)992670000000502397 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000502397 100 $a20230217d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPolitics of Security $eBritish and West German Protest Movements and the Early Cold War 1945-1970 /$fHolger Nehring 210 1$a[Place of publication not identified] :$cOxford Scholarship Online,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (243 pages) 311 $a1-299-90788-1 330 $aAnnotation. How did European societies experience the Cold War? Politics of Security focuses on a number of peace movements in Britain and West Germany from the end of Second World War in 1945 to the early 1970s to answer this question. Britons and West Germans had been fierce enemies in the Second World War. After 1945, however, many activists in both countries imagined themselves to be part of a common movement against nuclear armaments.Combining comparative and transnational histories, Politics of Security stresses how these movements were deeply embedded in their own societies, but also transcended them. In particular, it highlights the centrality of the memories of the Second World War as a prism through which people made sense of the threat of nuclear war. By placing British and West German experiences side by side, Holger Nehring illuminates the general patterns and specific features of these debates, arguing that the key characteristic of these discussions was the countries' concerns with different notions of security. The volume highlights how these ideas changed over time, how they reflected more general political, social, and cultural trends, and how they challenged mainstream assumptions of politics and government. This volume is the first to capture in a transnational fashion what activists did on marches against nuclear warfare, and what it meant to them and to others. It highlights the ways in which people became activists, and how they were transformed by these experiences. Nehring examines how these two societies with very different experiences and memories of the cruelties and atrocities of the Second World War drew on very similar arguments when they came to understand the Cold War through the prism of the previous world war. 517 $aPolitics of Security 606 $aProtest movements 615 0$aProtest movements. 676 $a303.484 700 $aNehring$b Holger$0802174 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910597883903321 996 $aPolitics of security$92188172 997 $aUNINA