Understanding the imaginary war Culture, thought and nuclear conflict, 1945–90 / edited by Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ziemann, Benjamin.

Grant, Matthew, 1980-

Series:

Cultural history of modern war.

Cultural history of modern war

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War (1945-1989).

Imaginary wars and battles.

Nuclear warfare--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands of intellectual debate and at different media, from documentary film to fiction, the chapters demonstrate the difficulties to make the unthinkable and unimaginable - nuclear apocalypse - imaginable.

Contents:

Introduction: the Cold War as an imaginary war / Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann

The apocalyptic fiction: shaping the future in the Cold War / Eva Horn

Building peace, fearing the apocalypse? Nuclear danger in Soviet Cold War culture / Miriam Dobson

Sixty years and counting: nuclear themes in American culture, 1945 to the present / Paul Boyer

The imaginative landscape of nuclear war in Britain, 1945-65 / Matthew Grant

German angst? Debating Cold War anxieties in West Germany, 1945-90 / Benjamin Ziemann

After Hiroshima: Günther Anders and the history of anti-nuclear critique / Jason Dawsey

Hiroshima/Nagasaki, civil rights and anti-war protest in Japan's Cold War / Ann Sherif

Catholic anti-communism, the bomb and perceptions of apocalypse in West Germany and the USA, 1945-90 / Daniel Gerster

"The nuclear arms race is psychological at its roots": physicians and their therapies for the Cold War / Claudia Kemper

Imagining the apocalypse: nuclear winter in science and the world / Paul Rubinson

Images of nuclear war in US government films from the early Cold War / Lars Nowak.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526101334

1526101335

9781526115126

1526115123

9781526101327

1526101327

OCLC:

981603408