Living With The Bomb American And Japanese Cultural Conflicts In The Nuclear Age

Author : Laura E. Hein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317465954
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age written by Laura E. Hein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. This volume explores the way in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples.

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ISBN 13 : 9781317465935
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with the Bomb written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Boyer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807875708
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By the Bomb's Early Light written by Paul Boyer and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-10-21 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985, By the Bomb's Early Light is the first book to explore the cultural 'fallout' in America during the early years of the atomic age. Paul Boyer argues that the major aspects of the long-running debates about nuclear armament and disarmament developed and took shape soon after the bombing of Hiroshima. The book is based on a wide range of sources, including cartoons, opinion polls, radio programs, movies, literature, song lyrics, slang, and interviews with leading opinion-makers of the time. Through these materials, Boyer shows the surprising and profoundly disturbing ways in which the bomb quickly and totally penetrated the fabric of American life, from the chillingly prophetic forecasts of observers like Lewis Mumford to the Hollywood starlet who launched her career as the 'anatomic bomb.' In a new preface, Boyer discusses recent changes in nuclear politics and attitudes toward the nuclear age.

Author : Toni A. Perrine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317732197
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film and the Nuclear Age written by Toni A. Perrine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as we generally pay scant attention to the potential dangers of nuclear power and nuclear war, until quite recently, scholars have made limited critical attempts to understand the cultural manifestations of the nuclear status quo. Films that feature nuclear issues most often simplify and trivialize the subject. They also convey a sense of the ambivalence and anxiety that pervades cultural responses to our nuclear capability. The production of popular narrative films with nuclear topics largely conforms to periods of heightened nuclear awareness or fear, such as the fear of fallout from nuclear testing manifested in the atomic creatures in science fiction movies of the late 1950s. By their very numbers, and through a set of recurring stylistic and narrative conventions, nuclear films reflect a deep-seated cultural anxiety. This study includes detailed textual analysis of films that depict nuclear issues including the development and use of the first atomic bombs, nuclear testing and the fear of fallout, nuclear power, the Cold War arms race, loose nukes, and future nuclear war and its aftermath.(Includes bibliographic references, index, filmography, choronology; Illustrated)

Author : Laura E. Hein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317465946
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age written by Laura E. Hein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. This volume explores the way in which the bomb has shaped the self-image of both peoples.

Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761446538
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hiroshima written by Michael Burgan and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore Hiroshima, and with eyewitness accounts and commentary, learn about the differing viewpoints surrounding the event.

Author : Walter Enloe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972372114
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nagasaki Spirits, Hiroshima Voices written by Walter Enloe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Jay Lifton
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807882895
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in Life written by Robert Jay Lifton and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Japan, "hibakusha" means "the people affected by the explosion--specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, winner of the 1969 National Book Award in Science, Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors. He sees this analysis as providing a last chance to understand--and be motivated to avoid--nuclear war. This compassionate treatment is a significant contribution to the atomic age.

Author : Rinjiro Sodei
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429982771
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Were We The Enemy? American Survivors Of Hiroshima written by Rinjiro Sodei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1945, the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What is hardly known is that 4,000 Nisei (Japanese Americans), the sons and daughters of Japanese immigrants who had been sent back to Japan to be educated before World War II erupted, were caught in the Hiroshima bombing. This extraordinary book commemorates the 3,000 Nisei who died from the atomic blast in Hiroshima and documents the plight of another 1,000 hibakusha (survivors of the bomb) who returned to the West Coast after the war.Branded as ?foreigners? in wartime Japan and as ?enemies? in postwar United States, their existence as victims of the atomic blast has not been recognized by either the Japanese or the U.S. government, both of which have refused to alleviate the medical and political problems of the survivors. Drawing on primary sources and rich interview data, Rinjiro Sodei has contributed an original scholarly work to the literature on World War II and the Asian-American experience. This book bears witness to the human calamities of the nuclear age and to the dignity of these Japanese Americans striving to obtain their rights and sustain their bicultural identity.

Author : Michael D. Gordin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691193452
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Hiroshima written by Michael D. Gordin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legacies On August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city's destruction stands as a powerful symbol of nuclear annihilation, but it has also shaped how we think about war and peace, the past and the present, and science and ethics. The Age of Hiroshima traces these complex legacies, exploring how the meanings of Hiroshima have reverberated across the decades and around the world. Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry bring together leading scholars from disciplines ranging from international relations and political theory to cultural history and science and technology studies, who together provide new perspectives on Hiroshima as both a historical event and a cultural phenomenon. As an event, Hiroshima emerges in the flow of decisions and hard choices surrounding the bombing and its aftermath. As a phenomenon, it marked a revolution in science, politics, and the human imagination—the end of one age and the dawn of another. The Age of Hiroshima reveals how the bombing of Hiroshima gave rise to new conceptions of our world and its precarious interconnectedness, and how we continue to live in its dangerous shadow today.