De-centering Cold War history : local and global change

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

" ... 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 lea...

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Other Authors: Mooney, Jadwiga E. Pieper (Editor), Lanza, Fabio, 1967- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge / Taylor and Francis, [2013]
Subjects:
1945-1989
Cold War > Economic aspects.
Cold War > Political aspects.
Cold War > Social aspects.
History, Modern > 1945-1989.
World politics > 1945-1989.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Economics
History, Modern
Social aspects
World politics
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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