De-Centering Cold War History Local and Global Change

Name: De-Centering Cold War History Local and Global Change
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ISBN: 9780415636407

ISBN-10: 041563640X

ISBN-13: 9780415636407

Edition: 2013

Authors: Fabio Lanza, Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney

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De-Centering Cold War Historychallenges 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…

Book details

List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 10/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney is assistant professor of history at the University of Arizona.



List of figures


Notes on contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction: de-centering Cold War history




Cold War activisms: crossing borders and building bridges



Thermonuclear weapons and tuna: testing, protest, and knowledge in Japan




The Cold War, Indonesian women and the global anti-imperialist movement, 1946-65




Fighting fascism and forging new political activism: the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) in the Cold War




Separating enemies from friends: communism, anti-communism, and the construction of Cold War realities



Cold War happiness: singing pioneers, internal enemies and Hungarian life under Stalinism




New men of power: Jack Tenney, Ronald Reagan, and postwar labor anticommunism




Female terrorists and vigilant citizens: gender, citizenship and Cold War direct-democracy




Rethinking opposition and conformity



Making sense of "China" during the Cold War: global Maoism and Asian studies




Anti-Communist entrepreneurs and the origins of the cultural Cold War in Latin America




A "new man" for Africa?: some particularities of the Marxist Homem Novo within Angolan cultural policy




The Cold War and Orange County



Index