| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). |
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text file |
| Series |
Cultural history of modern war
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Cultural history of modern war.
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| Contents |
Introduction. The cold war as an imaginary war -- Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann 1. The apocalyptic fiction: shaping the future in the cold war -- Eva Horn 2. Building peace, fearing the apocalypse: Nuclear danger in Soviet cold war culture, 1945-91 -- Miriam Dobson 3. Nuclear themes in American culture, 1945 to the present -- Paul Boyer 4. The imaginative landscape of nuclear war in Britain, 1945-65 -- Matthew Grant 5. German angst? Debating cold war anxieties in West Germany, 1945-90 -- Benjamin Ziemann 6. After Hiroshima. Günther Anders and the history of anti-nuclear critique -- Jason Dawsey 7. Hiroshima/Nagasaki, civil rights and anti-war protest in Japan's cold war -- Ann Sheriff 8. Catholic anti-communism, the bomb and perceptions of apocalypse in West Germany and the USA, 1945-90 -- Daniel Gerster 9. 'The nuclear arms race is psychological at its roots.' Physicians and their therapies for the Cold War -- Claudia Kemper 10. Imagining the apocalypse: nuclear winter in science and the world -- Paul Rubinson 11. Images of nuclear war in U.S. government films from the early cold war -- Lars Nowak Index. |
| Summary |
Presents a comparative overview of the cultural imaginations of nuclear weapons and the anticipation of nuclear destruction. It considers representations of elements of the Cold War in popular culture and thought across Europe, Japan, USSR and the USA, providing a significant addition to Cold War historiography. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cold War (1945-1989) |
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War.
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War. |
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Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects.
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Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects. |
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Cold War.
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Cold War in popular culture.
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Cold War (1945-1989) in popular culture. |
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Imaginary wars and battles.
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Imaginary wars and battles. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Grant, Matthew, 1980- editor.
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Ziemann, Benjamin, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781784994402 |
| ISBN |
9781526101334 (electronic book) |
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1526101335 (electronic book) |
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9781526101327 (electronic book) |
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1526101327 (electronic book) |
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9781784994402 (hardback) |
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1784994405 |
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