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Author | : David W. Mills |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2015-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806149396 |
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David W. Mills offers an enlightening look at what most of the heartland was up to while America was united in its war on Reds. Cold War in a Cold Land adopts a regional perspective to develop a new understanding of a critical chapter in the nation’s history.
Author | : David Mills |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Air bases |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Walter Mills |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David W. Mills |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2015-03-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0806149388 |
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Most communists, as any plains state patriot would have told you in the 1950s, lived in Los Angeles or New York City, not Minot, North Dakota. The Cold War as it played out across the Great Plains was not the Cold War of the American cities and coasts. Nor was it tempered much by midwestern isolationism, as common wisdom has it. In this book, David W. Mills offers an enlightening look at what most of the heartland was up to while America was united in its war on Reds. Cold War in a Cold Land adopts a regional perspective to develop a new understanding of a critical chapter in the nation’s history. Marx himself had no hope that landholding farmers would rise up as communist revolutionaries. So it should come as no surprise that in places like South Dakota, where 70 percent of the population owned land and worked for themselves, people didn’t take the threat of internal subversion very seriously. Mills plumbs the historical record to show how residents of the plains states—while deeply patriotic and supportive of the nation’s foreign policy—responded less than enthusiastically to national anticommunist programs. Only South Dakota, for example, adopted a loyalty oath, and it was fervently opposed throughout the state. Only Montana, prodded by one state legislator, formed an investigation committee—one that never investigated anyone and was quickly disbanded. Plains state people were, however, “highly churched” and enthusiastically embraced federal attempts to use religion as a bulwark against atheistic communist ideology. Even more enthusiastic was the Great Plains response to the military buildup that accompanied Cold War politics, as the construction of airbases and missile fields brought untold economic benefits to the region. A much-needed, nuanced account of how average citizens in middle America experienced Cold War politics and policies, Cold War in a Cold Land is a significant addition to the history of both the Cold War and the Great Plains.
Author | : Lindsay Gutteridge |
Publisher | : Harvill Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Gardens and war |
ISBN | : 9780586038147 |
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Dilke is reduced to quarter inch size and must both survive in a suddenly monstrous world and carry out a spy mission.
Author | : Lindsay Gutteridge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 1973-01 |
Genre | : Size |
ISBN | : 9780671776237 |
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Author | : Robert Swindells |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1994-12-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141928859 |
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An 'After-the-Bomb' story told by teenage Danny, one of the survivors - one of the unlucky ones. Set in Shipley, an ordinary town in the north of England, this is a powerful portrayal of a world that has broken down. Danny not only has to cope in a world of lawlessness and gang warfare, but he has to protect and look after his little brother, Ben, and a girl called Kim. Is there any hope left for a new world?
Author | : Chris B. Tye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : 9780095246927 |
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Author | : Shelton Stromquist |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Anti-communist movements |
ISBN | : 0252074696 |
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How the Cold War affected local-level union politics
Author | : Jon Wiener |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2012-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520271416 |
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“Here’s a book that would've split the sides of Thucydides. Wiener’s magical mystery tour of Cold War museums is simultaneously hilarious and the best thing ever written on public history and its contestation.“ —Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz “Jon Wiener, an astute observer of how history is perceived by the general public, shows us how official efforts to shape popular memory of the Cold War have failed. His journey across America to visit exhibits, monuments, and other historical sites, demonstrates how quickly the Cold War has faded from popular consciousness. A fascinating and entertaining book.” —Eric Foner, author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 "In How We Forgot the Cold War, Jon Wiener shows how conservatives tried—and failed—to commemorate the Cold War as a noble victory over the global forces of tyranny, a 'good war' akin to World War II. Displaying splendid skills as a reporter in addition to his discerning eye as a scholar, this historian's travelogue convincingly shows how the right sought to extend its preferred policy of 'rollback' to the arena of public memory. In a country where historical memory has become an obsession, Wiener’s ability to document the ambiguities and absences in these commemorations is an unusual accomplishment.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America “In this terrific piece of scholarly journalism, Jon Wiener imaginatively combines scholarship on the Cold War, contemporary journalism, and his own observations of various sites commemorating the era to describe both what they contain and, just as importantly, what they do not. By interrogating the standard conservative brand of American triumphalism, Wiener offers an interpretation of the Cold War that emphasizes just how unnecessary the conflict was and how deleterious its aftereffects have really been.”—Ellen Schrecker, author of Many Are The Crimes: McCarthyism in America