Uncertain empire
Subtitle: American history and the idea of the Cold War
By: edited by Joel Isaac and Duncan Bell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxoford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780199826124; 9780199826148
Subjects: Politics and culture; Historiography; World politics; Cold War; Intellectual life; Foreign relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cold War degree zero / Anders Stephanson; title: Exploring the histories of the Cold War : a pluralist approach / Odd Arne Westad; title: A history best served cold / Philip Mirowski; title: Inventing other realities : what the Cold War means for literary studies / Steven Belletto; title: The geopolitical vision : the myth of an outmatched U.S.A. / John Thompson; title: War envy and amnesia : American Cold War rewrites of Russia's war / Ann Douglas; title: The spirit of democracy : religious liberty and American anti-communism during the Cold War / Andrew Preston; title: God, the bomb, and the Cold War : the religious and ethical debate over nuclear weapons, 1945-1960 / Paul S. Boyer; title: Blues under siege : Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, and the idea of America / Daniel Matlin; title: Cold War culture and the lingering myth of Sacco and Vanzetti / Moshik Temkin; title: Deconstructing "Cold War anthropology" / Peter Mandler; title: Cognitive and perceptual training in the Cold War man-machine system / Sharon Ghamari.