The Everyday Cold War

Author : Chi-kwan Mark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474265456
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Everyday Cold War written by Chi-kwan Mark and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950 the British government accorded diplomatic recognition to the newly founded People's Republic of China. But it took 22 years for Britain to establish full diplomatic relations with China. How far was Britain's China policy a failure until 1972? This book argues that Britain and China were involved in the 'everyday Cold War', or a continuous process of contestation and cooperation that allowed them to 'normalize' their confrontation in the absence of full diplomatic relations. From Vietnam and Taiwan to the mainland and Hong Kong, China's 'everyday Cold War' against Britain was marked by diplomatic ritual, propaganda rhetoric and symbolic gestures. Rather than pursuing a failed policy of 'appeasement', British decision-makers and diplomats regarded engagement or negotiation with China as the best way of fighting the 'everyday Cold War'. Based on extensive British and Chinese archival sources, this book examines not only the high politics of Anglo-Chinese relations, but also how the British diplomats experienced the Cold War at the local level.

Author : Paul Steege
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521864968
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Market, Cold War written by Paul Steege and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of everyday life and explains how and why Berlin became the symbolic capital of the Cold War. Paul Steege anchors his account of this emerging global conflict in the terrain of a city literally shattered by World War II.

Author : Fred Inglis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cruel Peace written by Fred Inglis and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Covell F. Meyskens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108489559
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao's Third Front written by Covell F. Meyskens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how economic development and everyday life intersected with the temperature of Cold War geopolitics in Mao's China.

Author : Paul Mason
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1508170665
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Did Anything Good Come Out of the Cold War? written by Paul Mason and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War was a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that partly manifested itself as a race to conquer space. The Soviet Union launched the first satellite into orbit in 1957, while twelve years later the United States put the first humans on the moon. Some of the many technological feats required for space travel trickled down into everyday life, such as satellite television, bar codes, and joysticks. This resource highlights innovations that arose from the Cold War, demonstrating how this long conflict helped shape today’s world in some positive ways.

Author : Annette Vowinckel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857452444
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War Cultures written by Annette Vowinckel and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term “Cold War Culture” is often used in a broad sense to describe media influences, social practices, and symbolic representations as they shape, and are shaped by, international relations. Yet, it remains in question whether — or to what extent — the Cold War Culture model can be applied to European societies, both in the East and the West. While every European country had to adapt to the constraints imposed by the Cold War, individual development was affected by specific conditions as detailed in these chapters. This volume offers an important contribution to the international debate on this issue of the Cold War impact on everyday life by providing a better understanding of its history and legacy in Eastern and Western Europe.

Author : Fred Inglis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cruel Peace written by Fred Inglis and published by . This book was released on 1991-12-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas Barnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786733730
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain’s Cold War written by Nicholas Barnett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterized as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Both the US and Soviet administrations have since remarked how far off the mark their predictions of the other's strengths and aims were. Yet so much of the cultural output of the period – in television, film, and literature – was concerned with the end of the world. Here, Nicholas Barnett looks at art and design, opinion polls, the Mass Observation movement, popular fiction and newspapers to show how exactly British people felt about the Soviet Union and the Cold War. In uncovering new primary source material, Barnett shows exactly how this seeped in to the art, literature, music and design of the period.

Author : Youwei Xu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030996883
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Lives in China's Cold War Military-Industrial Complex written by Youwei Xu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built, lived, and worked in some of the factory compounds relocated from China’s most cosmopolitan city—Shanghai. Small Third Line factories became oases of relatively prosperous urban life among more impoverished agricultural communities. These accounts, plus the guiding questions, contextual notes, and further readings accompanying them, show how everyday lives fit into the sweeping geopolitical changes in China and the world during the Cold War era. Furthermore, they reveal how the Chinese Communist Party’s military-industrial strategies have shaped China’s economy and society in the post-Mao era. The approachable translations and insight into areas of life rarely covered by political or diplomatic histories like sexuality and popular culture make this book highly accessible for classroom use and the general-interest reader.

Author : Caroline S. Emmons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cold War and McCarthy Era written by Caroline S. Emmons and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers readers the opportunity to see how the Cold War and McCarthy eras affected men, women, and children of varying backgrounds, providing a more personal examination of this important era. Studies of the Cold War often focus on the political power players who shaped American/Soviet relations. Cold War and McCarthy Era: People and Perspectives shifts the spotlight to show how the fear of a Soviet attack and Communist infiltration affected the daily life of everyday Americans. Cold War and McCarthy Era gauges the impact of McCarthyism on a wide range of citizens. Chapters examine Cold War-era popular culture as well as the community-based Civil Defense Societies. Essays, key primary documents, and other reference tools further readers' understanding of how official reactions to Communist threats, both real and perceived, altered every aspect of American society.