LEADER 03305nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910791575803321 005 20230207232713.0 010 $a1-282-91930-X 010 $a9786612919305 010 $a0-231-52670-9 024 7 $a10.7312/kwon15304 035 $a(CKB)2560000000053933 035 $a(EBL)908799 035 $a(OCoLC)695655088 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486347 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12230524 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486347 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10430382 035 $a(PQKB)10648981 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908799 035 $a(DE-B1597)459035 035 $a(OCoLC)979742370 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231526708 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908799 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10432072 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL291930 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000053933 100 $a20100428d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe other Cold War$b[electronic resource] /$fHeonik Kwon 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 225 1 $aColumbia studies in international and global history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-15304-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aIn this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the world and that the end of the war marked a radical, universal rupture in modern history.Incorporating comparative ethnographic study into a thorough analysis of the period, Kwon upends cherished ideas about the global and their hold on contemporary social science. His narrative describes the slow decomposition of a complex social and political order involving a number of local and culturally creative processes. While the nations of Europe and North America experienced the cold war as a time of "long peace," postcolonial nations entered a different reality altogether, characterized by vicious civil wars and other exceptional forms of violence. Arguing that these events should be integrated into any account of the era, Kwon captures the first sociocultural portrait of the cold war in all its subtlety and diversity. 410 0$aColumbia studies in international and global history. 606 $aCold War$xSocial aspects 606 $aWorld politics$y1945-1989 606 $aHistory, Modern$y1945-1989 615 0$aCold War$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aWorld politics 615 0$aHistory, Modern 676 $a909.82/5 700 $aKwon$b Heonik$f1962-$01230317 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791575803321 996 $aThe other Cold War$93865230 997 $aUNINA