Bøger i Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond serien
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- The Federal Bureau of Narcotics and the Origins of America's Global Drug War
463,95 kr. The story of America's "War on Drugs" usually begins with Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan. In Containing Addiction, Matthew R. Pembleton argues that its origins instead lie in the years following World War II, when the Federal Bureau of Narcotics began to depict drug control as a paramilitary conflict and sent agents abroad to disrupt the flow of drugs to American shores.
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- 463,95 kr.
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- The Tunnel and the Struggle Over Television News in Cold War America
363,95 kr. The ascendance of television news in the 1960s as America's top choice for information threatened the self-defined supremacy of print journalism. In Contested Ground, Mike Conway argues that the production and reception of television news and documentaries during this period reveals a major upheaval in American news communications.
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- 363,95 kr.
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- Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter
363,95 kr. Details the cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinity - the fallout shelter father. Thomas Bishop demonstrates that the nuclear crisis years of 1957 to 1963 were not just pivotal for the history of international relations but were also a transitional moment in the social histories of American fatherhood.
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- 363,95 kr.
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- A People's History
363,95 kr. The Iraqi city of Fallujah has become an epicentre of geopolitical conflict, where foreign powers and non-state actors have repeatedly waged war. The Sacking of Fallujah is the first comprehensive study of the three recent sieges of this city, including those by the United States in 2004 and the Iraqi-led operation to defeat ISIS in 2016.
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- 363,95 kr.
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- Marilyn B. Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism
373,95 kr. Brings together for the first time Marilyn Young's articles and essays on American war, including never before published works. Moving from the first years of the Cold War to Korea, Vietnam, and more recent 'forever' wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Young reveals the ways in which war became ever-present, yet more covert and abstract.
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- 373,95 kr.
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- Late Cold War Culture in the Age of Reagan
388,95 kr. Andrew Hunt's history of the eighties investigates how film, television, and other facets of popular culture critiqued Washington's Cold War policies and reveals that activists and cultural rebels alike posed a more meaningful challenge to the Cold War's excesses than their predecessors in the McCarthy era.
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- 388,95 kr.