The Imaginary War

Author : Matthew Grant,Benjamin Ziemann
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526101334

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Understanding the imaginary war by Matthew Grant,Benjamin Ziemann Pdf

This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands of intellectual debate and at different media, from documentary film to fiction, the chapters demonstrate the difficulties to make the unthinkable and unimaginable - nuclear apocalypse - imaginable. The book will be required reading for everyone who wants to understand the cultural dynamics of the Cold War through the angle of its core ingredient, nuclear weapons.

Author : Mary Kaldor
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1557861803

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The Imaginary War by Mary Kaldor Pdf

Author : Heonik Kwon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231526708

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The Other Cold War by Heonik Kwon Pdf

In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the world and that the end of the war marked a radical, universal rupture in modern history. Incorporating comparative ethnographic study into a thorough analysis of the period, Kwon upends cherished ideas about the global and their hold on contemporary social science. His narrative describes the slow decomposition of a complex social and political order involving a number of local and culturally creative processes. While the nations of Europe and North America experienced the cold war as a time of "long peace," postcolonial nations entered a different reality altogether, characterized by vicious civil wars and other exceptional forms of violence. Arguing that these events should be integrated into any account of the era, Kwon captures the first sociocultural portrait of the cold war in all its subtlety and diversity.

Author : Guy Oakes
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0195090276

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The Imaginary War by Guy Oakes Pdf

"Duck and cover" are unforgettable words for a generation of Americans who listened throughout the Cold War to the unescapable propaganda of civil defense. Yet it would have been impossible to protect Americans from a real nuclear attack and, as Guy Oakes shows in The Imaginary War, national security officials knew it. Oakes contends that the real purpose of 1950s civil defense programs was not to protect Americans from the bomb, but to ingrain in them the moral resolve needed to face the hazards of the Cold War. Uncovering the links between national security, civil defense, and civic ethics, Oakes reveals three sides to the civil defense program: a system of emotional management designed to control fear; the fictional construction of a manageable world of nuclear attack; and the production of a Cold War ethic rooted in the mythology of the home, the ultimate sanctuary of American values. This fascinating analysis of the culture of civil defense is a strong indictment of the official mythmaking of the Cold War. It will be essential reading for all those interested in American history, politics, and cultural studies.

Author : Mary Kaldor
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 0631161139

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Author : Guy Oakes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199762408

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The Imaginary War by Guy Oakes Pdf

"Duck and cover" are unforgettable words for a generation of Americans, who listened throughout the Cold War to the unescapable propaganda of civil defense. Yet it would have been impossible to protect Americans from a real nuclear attack, and, as Guy Oakes shows in The Imaginary War, national security officials knew it. The real purpose of 1950's civil defense programs, Oakes contends, was not to protect Americans from the bomb, but to ingrain in them the moral resolve needed to face the hazards of the Cold War. Uncovering the links between national security, civil defense, and civic ethics, Oakes reveals three sides to the civil defense program: a system of emotional management designed to control fear; the fictional construction of a manageable world of nuclear attack; and the production of a Cold War ethic rooted in the mythology of the home, the ultimate sanctuary of American values. This fascinating analysis of the culture of civil defense and the official mythmaking of the Cold War will be essential reading for all those interested in American history, politics, and culture.

Author : Carolyn Nordstrom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520239776

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Shadows of War by Carolyn Nordstrom Pdf

Annotation This book captures the human face of the frontlines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of contemporary war, power, and international profiteering in the 21st century.

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0253210038

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The Gulf War Did Not Take Place by Jean Baudrillard Pdf

In a provocative analysis written during the unfolding drama of 1992, Baudrillard draws on his concepts of simulation and the hyperreal to argue that the Gulf War did not take place but was a carefully scripted media event--a "virtual" war. Patton's introduction argues that Baudrillard, more than any other critic of the Gulf War, correctly identified the stakes involved in the gestation of the New World Order.

Author : Kate A. Baldwin
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611688641

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The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen by Kate A. Baldwin Pdf

This book demonstrates the ways in which the kitchen - the centerpiece of domesticity and consumerism - was deployed as a recurring motif in the ideological and propaganda battles of the Cold War. Beginning with the famous Nixon-Khrushchev kitchen debate, Baldwin shows how Nixon turned the kitchen into a space of exception, while contemporary writers, artists, and activists depicted it as a site of cultural resistance. Focusing on a wide variety of literature and media from the United States and the Soviet Union, Baldwin reveals how the binary logic at work in Nixon's discourse - setting U.S. freedom against Soviet totalitarianism - erased the histories of slavery, gender subordination, colonialism, and racial genocide. The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen treats the kitchen as symptomatic of these erasures, connecting issues of race, gender, and social difference across national boundaries. This rich and rewarding study - embracing the literature, film, and photography of the era - will appeal to a broad spectrum of scholars.

Author : John Mueller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108843836

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The Stupidity of War by John Mueller Pdf

This innovative argument shows the consequences of increased aversion to international war for foreign and military policy.

Author : Richard Barbrook
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015068819591

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Imaginary Futures by Richard Barbrook Pdf

Leading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.

Author : Lisa Yoneyama
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822374114

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Cold War Ruins by Lisa Yoneyama Pdf

In Cold War Ruins Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a "transborder redress culture." A product of failed post-World War II transitional justice that left many colonial legacies intact, this culture both contests and reiterates the complex transwar and transpacific entanglements that have sustained the Cold War unredressability and illegibility of certain violences. By linking justice to the effects of American geopolitical hegemony, and by deploying a conjunctive cultural critique—of "comfort women" redress efforts, state-sponsored apologies and amnesties, Asian American involvement in redress cases, the ongoing effects of the U.S. occupation of Japan and Okinawa, Japanese atrocities in China, and battles over WWII memories—Yoneyama helps illuminate how redress culture across Asia and the Pacific has the potential to bring powerful new and challenging perspectives on American exceptionalism, militarized security, justice, sovereignty, forgiveness, and decolonization.

Author : William Stueck
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0813123062

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The Korean War in World History by William Stueck Pdf

" The Korean War in World History features the accomplishments of noted scholars over the last decade and lays the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship. These essays present the latest thinking on the Korean War, focusing on the relationship of one country to the war. William Stueck’s introduction and conclusion link each essay to the rich historiography of the event and suggest the war’s place within the history of the twentieth century. The Korean War had two very different faces. On one level the conflict was local, growing out of the internal conditions of Korea and fought almost entirely within the confines of a small Asian country located far from Europe. The fighting pitted Korean against Korean in a struggle to determine the balance of political power within the country. Yet the war had a huge impact on the international politics of the Cold War. Combat threatened to extend well beyond the peninsula, potentially igniting another global conflagration and leaving in its wake a much escalated arms race between the Western and Eastern blocs. The dynamics of that division remain today, threatening international peace and security in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Lloyd Gardner, Chen Jian, Allan R. Millett, Michael Schaller, and Kathryn Weathersby

Author : Guy Oakes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0199923531

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The Imaginary War : Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture by Guy Oakes Pdf

"Duck and cover" are unforgettable words for a generation of Americans, who listened throughout the Cold War to the unescapable propaganda of civil defense. Yet it would have been impossible to protect Americans from a real nuclear attack, and, as Guy Oakes shows in The Imaginary War, national security officials knew it. The real purpose of 1950's civil defense programs, Oakes contends, was not to protect Americans from the bomb, but to ingrain in them the moral resolve needed to face the hazards of the Cold War. Uncovering the links between national security, civil defense, and civic ethics, Oakes reveals three sides to the civil defense program: a system of emotional management designed to control fear; the fictional construction of a manageable world of nuclear attack; and the production of a Cold War ethic rooted in the mythology of the home, the ultimate sanctuary of American values. This fascinating analysis of the culture of civil defense and the official mythmaking of the Cold War will be essential reading for all those interested in American history, politics, and culture.

Author : P. W. Singer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781440685972

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Wired for War by P. W. Singer Pdf

“[Singer's] enthusiasm becomes infectious . . . Wired for War is a book of its time: this is strategy for the Facebook generation.” —Foreign Affairs “An engrossing picture of a new class of weapon that may revolutionize future wars. . .” —Kirkus Reviews P. W. Singer explores the great­est revolution in military affairs since the atom bomb: the dawn of robotic warfare We are on the cusp of a massive shift in military technology that threatens to make real the stuff of I, Robot and The Terminator. Blending historical evidence with interviews of an amaz­ing cast of characters, Singer shows how technology is changing not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and the ethics that surround war itself. Travelling from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to modern-day "skunk works" in the midst of suburbia, Wired for War will tantalise a wide readership, from military buffs to policy wonks to gearheads.