De-Centering Cold War History (eBook, PDF)

Local and Global Change
Redaktion: Pieper Mooney, Jadwiga E.; Lanza, Fabio

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 international group of scholars take a fresh look at historical agency in different places across the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. This collaborative effort shapes a street-level history of the global Cold War era, one that uses the analysis of the 'local' to rethink and reframe the wider picture of the 'global', connecting the political negotiations of individuals and communities at the intersection of places and of meeting points between 'ordinary' people and political elites to the Cold War at large. Essential reading for all students of Cold War history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136184086
• Artikelnr.: 47893561

Autorenporträt

Jadwiga Pieper-Mooney is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Arizona. Her publications include The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women's Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile (Pittsburgh University Press, 2009). Fabio Lanza is an Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. His publications include Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing (Columbia University Press, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: Cold War Activisms: Crossing Borders and Building
Bridges 1. Thermonuclear Weapons and Tuna 2. The Cold War and Transnational
Links 3. Fighting Fascism and Forging New Political Activism Part II:
Separating Enemies from Friends: Communism, Anticommunism, and the
Construction of Cold War Realities 4. Cold War Happiness 5. New Men of
Power 6. Female Terrorists and Vigilant Citizens. Gender, Citizenship and
Cold War Direct Democracy Part III: Rethinking Opposition and Conformity
7. Making Sense of "China" during the Cold War 8. Anti-Communist
Entrepreneurs and the Anti-"Peace" Campaigns in Latin America 9. A "New
Man" for Africa? Some Particularities of the Marxist Homem Novo Within
Angolan Cultural Policy 10. The Cold War and Orange County