RETHINKING COLD WAR CULTURE
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (568 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1560988959 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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This anthology of essays questions many widespread assumptions about the culture of postwar America. By examining popular culture, politics, economics, gender relations, and civil rights, the contributors contend that, while there was little fundamentally new about American culture in the Cold War era, the Cold War shaped and distorted virtually every aspect of American life. Illuminating the origins and development of the many threads that constituted American culture during the Cold War, the contributors challenge the existence of a monolithic culture during the 1950s and thereafter. Interacting with long-term historical trends related to demographics, technological change, and economic cycles, four new elements dramatically influenced American politics and culture: the threat of nuclear annihilation, the use of surrogate and covert warfare, the intensification of anticommunist ideology, and the rise of a powerful military-industrial complex. This provocative dialogue by leading historians promis
Kuznick is associate professor of history and director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, and the author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America (1987).James Gilbert is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of Redeeming Culture: Am
"I found the writing easy to read and the information informative" according to K. Marie Frances. I read this book for a Cold War Literature class in my graduate program. I found the writing easy to read and the information informative. Like many historical surveys, this text includes various essays from different authors, which gives each chapter its own distinct flavor. Overall, as a young person who was born the same year that the wall came down, reading this book helped . Nice compilation tonito4 This is a really good and fresh way to percive the Cold War. It took down myth about this unpredictable and hard to understand period.
. Kuznick is associate professor of history and director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, and the author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America (1987).James Gilbert is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science (1997). About the AuthorPeter J