What did you do in the cold war, daddy? : personal stories from a troubled time / / edited by Ann Curthoys, Joy Damousi ; design, Josephine Pajor-Markus ; cover design, Luke Causby, Blue Cork

• Pubblicazione: Sydney, [Australia] : , : NewSouth, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Disciplina: 909.825
• Soggetto topico: Cold War - Influence; Cold War - Moral and ethical aspects - Australia; Cold War
• Soggetto geografico: Australia Social life and customs Anecdotes
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): CurthoysAnn; DamousiJoy; Pajor-MarkusJosephine; CausbyLuke
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; 1. Martin Krygier - An Intimate and Foreign Affair; 2. Valerie Cooms - The Workers United Will be Defeated!; 3. Lyndall Ryan - Caught out: Edna and Jack Ryan and the 1951 Referendum; 4. John Docker - Troubled Reflections on my Father; 5. Peter Manning - In the Middle of a Dream; 7. Rodney Cavalier - A war I did Not Know About That Influenced Me So Much; 8. Mark Aarons - Scenes from my Cold War; 9. Mary Elizabeth Calwell - How We Survived 'The Movement'; 10. Ron Witton - Growing up and Living with the Cold War; 11. George Zangalis - A Political Life ; 12. Sheila Fitzpatrick - The Cold War as Remembered by the Children of the Old LeftNotes; Acknowledgments; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in. Family ties were tested, friendships were torn apart and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through twelve evocative stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from vastly different backgrounds explore how global political events affected the intimate space of home, family life and friendships. Some writers were barely in their teens when they felt the first touches of their parents' political lives, both on the Left and the Right. Others grew up in households well at
• Titolo autorizzato: What did you do in the cold war, daddy
• ISBN: 1-74224-693-1; 1-74224-177-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910481051203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II