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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Disciplina: 909.82/5
• Soggetto topico: Cold War - Political aspects; Cold War - Social aspects; Cold War - Economic aspects; History, Modern - 1945-1989; World politics - 1945-1989
• Altri autori: LanzaFabio <1967-> MooneyJadwiga E. Pieper
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: De-centering Cold War history
• ISBN: 1-136-18407-4; 0-415-63640-X; 1-283-99439-9; 0-203-08327-X; 1-136-18408-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786052803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II