The Cold War : historiography, memory, representation

"This volume describes and analyzes the cultural history and representation of the Cold War from an international perspective. That innovative approach focuses on master narratives of the Cold War, places of memory, public and private memorialization, popular culture, and schoolbooks. These gen...

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Weitere Verfasser: Jarausch, Konrad 1941- (HerausgeberIn), Ostermann, Christian F. 1965- (HerausgeberIn), Etges, Andreas 1965- (HerausgeberIn), De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Conference The Cold War: History, Memory, Representation
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2017]
Schlagworte:Cold War Memory Cold War in literature Cold War in motion pictures Cold War in popular culture Ost-West-Konflikt Geschichtsschreibung Erinnerung Kollektives Gedächtnis Geschichte
Umfang:VIII, 309 Seiten
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Rethinking, representing, and remembering the Cold War: some cultural perspectives Konrad H. Jarausch, Christian F. Ostermann and Andreas Etges
  • Representation and recoding: interdisciplinary perspectives on Cold War cultures Siegfried Weichlein
  • Probing the Cold War narrative since 1945: the case of Western Europe David Reynolds
  • Changing Cold War interpretations in post-Soviet Russia Vladimir O. Pechatnov
  • Company confessions: the CIA, whistleblowers and Cold War revisionism Christopher R. Moran
  • The Cold War in history textbooks: a German-German, French and British comparison Falk Pingel
  • Machiavelli's angels hiding in plain sight: media culture and French spy fiction of the Cold War Paul Bleton
  • Enemies, spies, and the bomb: Cold War cinema in comparison: Germany and the US, 1948-1970 Christoph Classen
  • Remembering the American war in Vietnam Jennifer Dickey
  • "The Cold War? I have it at home with my family": memories of the 1948-1989 period beyond the Iron Curtain Muriel Blaive
  • Protect and survive: preserving and presenting the built Cold War heritage Wayne D. Cocroft
  • Berlin's Gesamtkonzept for remembering the Wall Hope M. Harrison
  • Competing for the best Wall memorial: the rise of a Cold War heritage industry in Berlin Sybille Frank
  • Contested legacies: Cold War memory sites in Berlin Hanno Hochmuth.