Penny M. Von Eschen

Paradoxes of Nostalgia

Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Penny M. Von Eschen offers a sweeping examination of the afterlife of the cold war and its lingering shadows, showing how a nostalgia and longing for stability fuels US-led militarism and the rise of xenophobic right-wing nationalism and authoritarianism around the world.

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Produktdetails

• American Encounters/Global Interactions
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018230
• ISBN-10: 1478018232
• Artikelnr.: 62548183

Autorenporträt

Penny M. Von Eschen is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies and Professor of History at the University of Virginia and author of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War and Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. The Ends of History  21
2. Out of Order: Discordant Triumphalism and the “Clash of Civilizations” 
56
3. Losing the Good Life: Post-Cold War Malaise and the Enemy Within  92
4. “God I Miss the Cold War”: Busted Containers and Popular Nostalgia,
1993–1999  131
5. Consuming Nostalgia: Lampooning Lenin, Marketing Mao, and the Global
Turn to the Right  174
6. Patriot Acts: Staging the War on Terror from Spy Museum to Bishkek  218
7. Spies R Us: Paradoxes of US-Russian Relations  259
Epilogue. Nostalgia for the Future  298
Notes  309
Works Cited  353
Index  365