TY - BOOK AU - Isaac,Joel AU - Bell,Duncan TI - Uncertain empire: American history and the idea of the Cold War SN - 9780199826131 AV - E169.12 .U478 2012eb U1 - 973.91 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Politics and culture KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Cold War KW - Social aspects KW - Historiography KW - World politics KW - 1945-1989 KW - Politique et culture KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - Guerre froide KW - Aspect social KW - Historiographie KW - Politique mondiale KW - HISTORY KW - 20th Century KW - bisacsh KW - Diplomatic relations KW - fast KW - Intellectual life KW - Foreign relations KW - Soviet Union KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Relations extérieures KW - URSS KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cold War degree zero / Anders Stephanson -- Exploring the histories of the Cold War : a pluralist approach / Odd Arne Westad -- A history best served cold / Philip Mirowski -- Inventing other realities : what the Cold War means for literary studies / Steven Belletto -- The geopolitical vision : the myth of an outmatched U.S.A. / John Thompson -- War envy and amnesia : American Cold War rewrites of Russia's war / Ann Douglas -- The spirit of democracy : religious liberty and American anti-communism during the Cold War / Andrew Preston -- God, the bomb, and the Cold War : the religious and ethical debate over nuclear weapons, 1945-1960 / Paul S. Boyer -- Blues under siege : Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, and the idea of America / Daniel Matlin -- Cold War culture and the lingering myth of Sacco and Vanzetti / Moshik Temkin -- Deconstructing "Cold War anthropology" / Peter Mandler -- Cognitive and perceptual training in the Cold War man-machine system / Sharon Ghamari N2 - Historians have long understood that the notion of ""the cold war"" is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union was a war that fell ambiguously short of war, an armed truce that produced considerable bloodshed. Yet scholars in the rapidly expanding field of Cold War studies have seldom paused to consider the conceptual and chronological foundations of the idea of the Cold War itself. In Uncertain Empire, a group of leading scholars takes up the challenge of making sense of the idea of the Cold War and its application to the writing of UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=597530 ER -