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The Cold War : historiography, memory, representation / edited by Konrad H. Jarausch, Christian F. Ostermann, and Andreas Etges.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Analytics: Show analyticsPublication details: 2017 Berlin Boston De Gruyter/OldenbourgDescription: viii, 309 pages illustrations 24 cmISBN:
  • 9783110495225
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.82/5 23
Other classification:
  • K.55
Contents:
Konrad H. Jarausch, Christian F. Ostermann and Andreas Etges: Rethinking, representing, and remembering the Cold War : some cultural perspectives -- Siegfried Weichlein: Representation and recoding : interdisciplinary perspectives on Cold War cultures -- David Reynolds: Probing the Cold War narrative since 1945 : the case of Western Europe -- Vladimir O. Pechatnov: Changing Cold War interpretations in post-Soviet Russia -- Christopher R. Moran: Company confessions : the CIA, whistleblowers and Cold War revisionism -- Falk Pingel: The Cold War in history textbooks : a German-German, French and British comparison -- Paul Bleton: Machiavelli's angels hiding in plain sight : media culture and French spy fiction of the Cold War -- Christoph Classen: Enemies, spies, and the bomb : Cold War cinema in comparison : Germany and the US, 1948-1970 -- Jennifer Dickey: Remembering the American war in Vietnam -- Muriel Blaive: "The Cold War? I have it at home with my family" : memories of the 1948-1989 period beyond the Iron Curtain -- Wayne D. Cocroft: Protect and survive : Preserving and presenting the built Cold War heritage -- Hope M. Harrison: Berlin's Gesamtkonzept for remembering the Wall -- Sybille Frank: Competing for the best Wall memorial : The rise of a Cold War heritage industry in Berlin -- Hanno Hochmuth: Contested legacies : Cold War memory sites in Berlin
Summary: "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 general themes are illustrated through a case study of Cold War memory in Berlin, which was a unique former center of Cold War confrontation and competition"--Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references (page 300-301) and index

Konrad H. Jarausch, Christian F. Ostermann and Andreas Etges: Rethinking, representing, and remembering the Cold War : some cultural perspectives -- Siegfried Weichlein: Representation and recoding : interdisciplinary perspectives on Cold War cultures -- David Reynolds: Probing the Cold War narrative since 1945 : the case of Western Europe -- Vladimir O. Pechatnov: Changing Cold War interpretations in post-Soviet Russia -- Christopher R. Moran: Company confessions : the CIA, whistleblowers and Cold War revisionism -- Falk Pingel: The Cold War in history textbooks : a German-German, French and British comparison -- Paul Bleton: Machiavelli's angels hiding in plain sight : media culture and French spy fiction of the Cold War -- Christoph Classen: Enemies, spies, and the bomb : Cold War cinema in comparison : Germany and the US, 1948-1970 -- Jennifer Dickey: Remembering the American war in Vietnam -- Muriel Blaive: "The Cold War? I have it at home with my family" : memories of the 1948-1989 period beyond the Iron Curtain -- Wayne D. Cocroft: Protect and survive : Preserving and presenting the built Cold War heritage -- Hope M. Harrison: Berlin's Gesamtkonzept for remembering the Wall -- Sybille Frank: Competing for the best Wall memorial : The rise of a Cold War heritage industry in Berlin -- Hanno Hochmuth: Contested legacies : Cold War memory sites in Berlin

"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 general themes are illustrated through a case study of Cold War memory in Berlin, which was a unique former center of Cold War confrontation and competition"--Provided by publisher

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