TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kwon,Heonik
TI  - The Other Cold War
T2  - Columbia Studies in International and Global History
SN  - 9780231153041
AV  - D843 .K95 2010
U1  - 900 22/ger
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - 1945-1989
KW  - World politics
KW  - HISTORY / World
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part 1 --; Part 2 --; Part 3 --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the world and that the end of the war marked a radical, universal rupture in modern history.Incorporating comparative ethnographic study into a thorough analysis of the period, Kwon upends cherished ideas about the global and their hold on contemporary social science. His narrative describes the slow decomposition of a complex social and political order involving a number of local and culturally creative processes. While the nations of Europe and North America experienced the cold war as a time of "long peace," postcolonial nations entered a different reality altogether, characterized by vicious civil wars and other exceptional forms of violence. Arguing that these events should be integrated into any account of the era, Kwon captures the first sociocultural portrait of the cold war in all its subtlety and diversity
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/kwon15304
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231526708
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231526708/original
ER  -