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Mandler, Peter, author.
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306 23
Publication Date
2013
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Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and 30s, was determined as the Second World War approached to show that anthropology could help sum up the national character of the most complex, modern societies and produce better wartime strategies. This book follows her and her closest collaborators to their triumphant climax when Mead was chosen to be one of the principal cultural ambassadors from America to Britain in 1943.
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Sollors, Werner, author.
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940.554 23
Publication Date
2014
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Conrad, Sebastian.
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943.086072043 22
Publication Date
2010
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Highly praised when published in Germany, The Quest for the Lost Nation is a brilliant chronicle of Germany's and Japan's struggles to reclaim a defeated national past. Sebastian Conrad compares the ways German and Japanese scholars revised national history after World War II in the shadows of fascism, surrender, and American occupation. Defeat in 1945 marked the death of the national past in both countries, yet, as Conrad proves, historians did not abandon national perspectives during reconstruction. Quite the opposite--the nation remained hidden at the center of texts as scholars tried to mak.
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Chirot, Daniel.
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940.531 23
Publication Date
2014
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"The legacy of the Second World War has been, like the war itself, an international phenomenon. In both Europe and Asia, common questions of criminality, guilt, and collaboration have intersected with history and politics on the local level to shape the way that wartime experience has been memorialized, reinterpreted, and used. By directly comparing European and Asian legacies, Confronting Memories of World War II, provides unique insight into the way that World War II continues to influence contemporary attitudes and politics on a global scale. The collection brings together experts from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to explore the often overlooked commonalities between European and Asian handling of memories and reflections about guilt. These commonalities suggest new understandings of the war's legacy and the continuing impact of historical trauma. Daniel Chirot is Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Washington. Gi-Wook Shin is director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, as well as holder of the Tong Yang, Korea Foundation, and Korea Stanford Alumni Chair of Korean Studies. Daniel Sneider is associate director of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Center. Contributors include Thomas Berger, Frances Gouda, Julian T. Jackson, Fania Oz-Salzbe, Gilbert Rozman, Igor Torbakov, and Roger Petersen; "A provocative, timely, superbly documented volume on urgent moral, political and historical topics. There is no trace of idealization--the book is objective, clear-minded, and historically poignant. A substantial, truly enriching addition in terms of a global comparative approach"--Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland, College Park; "This truly 'international' edited volume on the issues of war, memory, and national identity explores how memories about wartime experiences--including criminality, collaboration and reconciliation--are shaped and reshaped, connected to questions of national identity, and used for domestic and international political purposes"--Patricia L. Maclachlan, University of Texas, Austin"--
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Filreis, Alan, 1956- author.
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809.93358 23
Publication Date
2021
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"William Shirer's best-selling The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich published in 1960 provided a straight-forward historical/journalistic approach to documenting and accounting for Nazism. The book's publication represented one of the first attempts in America to come to terms with World War II. Shirer's book however, stood in contrast to other, more experimental artistic and literary works of that year that sought to create a new language to understand the trauma of World War II and to imagine a new world. In 1960, Al Filries provides a new understanding of the postwar avant-garde. Looking at a wide range of artists, thinkers, and writers, including Paul Celan, James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, Muriel Rukeyser and Hannah Arendt, Al Filreis discusses how artists in 1960 turned back to the war of 1939-45 and to the unprecedented horror and mass killings of that period. 1960 reflects on the belatedness of that artistic response and reconsiders the start of the Sixties that went beyond the supposed ideological divisions of the Fifties and the critique of conformity and consumerism inspired by the Beats and others. The work that came out of this period, which linked the legacies of fascism and anti-semitism with American racism, also sought to reclaim the more radical elements of modernism in poetry, fiction, theater, film, memoir, and sculpture. Turning to popular culture, Filreis examines how the teleplays of Rod Serling and the music of John Coltrane, steeped in the horrors of World War II, also provided visions of hope"--
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Shrader, Charles R.
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949.5074 21
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1999
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Gardner, Lloyd C., 1934-
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959.7043 21
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2000 1999
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Chickering, Roger, 1942-
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940.3 22
Publication Date
2003
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The essays in this compelling collection examine the period between the two world wars of the twentieth century; one of the most exciting in the history of war. They explore the lingering consequences of World War I; the intellectual efforts to analyze this conflict's military significance; the attempts to plan for another general war; and several episodes in the 1930s that portended the war that erupted in 1939.
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Fraser, Gordon, 1943-
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623.4511909 23
Publication Date
2012
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It was no accident that the Holocaust and the Atomic Bomb happened at the same time. When the Nazis came into power in 1933, their initial objective was not to get rid of Jews. Rather, their aim was to refine German culture: Jewish professors and teachers at fine universities were sacked. Atomic science had attracted a lot of Jewish talent, and as Albert Einstein and other quantum exiles scattered, they realized that they held the key to a weapon of unimaginable power. Convinced that their gentile counterparts in Germany had come to the same conclusion, and having witnessed what the Nazis were prepared to do, the exiles were afraid. They had to get to the Atomic Bomb first. The Nazis meanwhile had acquired a more pressing objective: their persecution of the Jews had evolved into extermination. Two dreadful projects - the Bomb and the Holocaust - became locked a grisly race.
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Brands, Hal, 1983-
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980.03 22
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2010
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Fitzgerald, Michael R., 1947- editor.
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909.825 23
Publication Date
2013
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"Featuring first hand accounts by international politicians and diplomats along with analyses by leading scholars, this unique collection of essays provides insights from multiple perspectives to foster better understanding of international relations during and after the Cold War. Experts from both sides of the "iron curtain" shed light on the origins, struggles, ending, and legacy of the conflict that dominated the second half of the twentieth century and that still affects current East-West relations, the securing and dismantling of weapons of mass destruction, and the instability of many regions. With a particular focus on diplomatic relations, the book looks at the origins of the conflict from Yalta to Korea, the prelude to De;tente from Cuba to Vietnam, followed by the move from De;tente to dialogue. It then addresses such issues as strategic weapons, the impact of the war on scientific research, intelligence, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lastly, it examines the legacy of the Cold War across regions of the world, including Europe, Japan, India, China, and the lessons to be drawn for today's diplomatic relations and intelligence. With contributions from Howard Baker, Jr., Sir Anthony Brenton, Susan Eisenhower, Grigoryi Karasin, Alexander Likhotal, Kishan Rana, Ying Rong, and more, the volume presents a truly international treatment of a subject of global dimensions and importance. Students of politics and international relations will find it invaluable as will Foreign Service practitioners, and instructors teaching the Cold War and foreign affairs"--
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Goldenberg, Myrna, editor.
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940.5318081 23
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2012
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