Understanding the imaginary war

Culture, thought and nuclear conflict, 1945-90
Herausgeber: Grant, Matthew; Ziemann, Benjamin

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781526131904
• ISBN-10: 1526131900
• Artikelnr.: 52207763

Autorenporträt

Matthew Grant is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Essex Benjamin Ziemann is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

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