Cold War crucible : the Korean Conflict and the postwar world /

After World War II, the major powers faced social upheaval at home and anticolonial wars around the globe. Alarmed by conflict in Korea that could change U.S.-Soviet relations from chilly to nuclear, ordinary people and policymakers created a fantasy of a bipolar Cold War world in which global and d...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Masuda, Hajimu (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
1945-1989
Cold War.
Korean War, 1950-1953 > Influence.
World politics > 1945-1989.
Guerre froide.
Guerre de Corée, 1950-1953 > Influence.
Politique mondiale > 1945-1989.
HISTORY > World.
HISTORY > Social History.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
World politics
Koude Oorlog.
Korea.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What was the Cold War?
  • Part I. The repercussions
  • Naming the unnamable
  • Local translation
  • Part II. The social
  • Cold War fantasy
  • Politics of impression
  • The truth-making campaign
  • Between mobilization and participation
  • Part III. The simultaneity
  • Social warfare
  • "Expose enemies within our gates!"
  • People's war at home
  • Decolonization as recolonization
  • Epilogue: The Cold War as social politics.

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