Uncertain empire [[electronic resource] ] : American history and the idea of the Cold War / / edited by Joel Isaac and Duncan Bell

• Pubblicazione: Oxoford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 302 pages)
• Disciplina: 973.91
• Soggetto topico: Politics and culture - United States - History - 20th century; Cold War - Social aspects - United States; Cold War - Historiography; World politics - 1945-1989
• Soggetto geografico: United States Intellectual life 20th century; United States Foreign relations Soviet Union; Soviet Union Foreign relations United States
• Classificazione: 973.91 UNC
• Altri autori: IsaacJoel <1978-> BellDuncan <1976->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cold War degree zero / Anders Stephanson -- Exploring the histories of the Cold War : a pluralist approach / Odd Arne Westad -- A history best served cold / Philip Mirowski -- Inventing other realities : what the Cold War means for literary studies / Steven Belletto -- The geopolitical vision : the myth of an outmatched U.S.A. / John Thompson -- War envy and amnesia : American Cold War rewrites of Russia's war / Ann Douglas -- The spirit of democracy : religious liberty and American anti-communism during the Cold War / Andrew Preston -- God, the bomb, and the Cold War : the religious and ethical debate over nuclear weapons, 1945-1960 / Paul S. Boyer -- Blues under siege : Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, and the idea of America / Daniel Matlin -- Cold War culture and the lingering myth of Sacco and Vanzetti / Moshik Temkin -- Deconstructing "Cold War anthropology" / Peter Mandler -- Cognitive and perceptual training in the Cold War man-machine system / Sharon Ghamari.
• Sommario/riassunto: Uncertain Empire brings debates over national, global, and transnational history into focus and offers students of the Cold War a new framework for considering recent developments in the field.
• Titolo autorizzato: Uncertain empire
• ISBN: 0-19-998666-5; 0-19-982612-9; 0-19-982613-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818994803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II