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Cold War

 

Abelson, Donald E., “Politics on Ice: The United States, the Soviet Union, and a Hockey Game in Lake Placid,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 40 (no. 1, 2010), 63–94.

Aono, Toshihiko, “‘It Is Not Easy for the United States to Carry the Whole Load’: Anglo-American Relations during the Berlin Crisis, 1961–1962,” Diplomatic History, 34 (April 2010), 325–56.

Babbitt, Eileen F., “The Evolution of International Conflict Resolution: From Cold War to Peacebuilding,” Negotiation Journal, 25 (October 2009), 539–49.

Beardsworth, Adam, “Learning to Love the Bomb: Robert Lowell’s Pathological Poetics,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 40 (no. 1, 2010), 95–116.

Bischof, Günter, “‘No Action’: The Johnson Administration and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968,” in The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, ed. Günter Bischof, Stefan Karner, and Peter Ruggenthaler, 215–36. (Lanham: Lexington, 2010. xii, 510 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-7391-4304-9.)

Chi-kwan, Mark, “Vietnam War Tourists: U.S. Naval Visits to Hong Kong and British-American-Chinese Relations, 1965–1968,” Cold War History (London), 10 (Feb. 2010), 1–28.

Falk, Andrew, “‘Atomic Babble’: Civil Defense and Citizen Opportunities, 1945–1964,” New England Journal of History, 66 (Spring 2010), 31–53.

Halliwell, Martin, “Cold War Ground Zero: Medicine, Psyops, and the Bomb,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 44 (May 2010), 313–31.

Manela, Erez, “A Pox on Your Narrative: Writing Disease Control into Cold War History,” Diplomatic History, 34 (April 2010), 299–323.

Savvas, Theophilus, “‘Nothing but Words’? Chronicling and Storytelling in Robert Coover’s The Public Burning,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 44 (Feb. 2010), 171–86.

Siracusa, Joseph M., “Reflections on the Cold War,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 28 (Dec. 2009), 1–16.

Snyder, Sarah B., “‘Jerry, Don’t Go’: Domestic Opposition to the 1975 Helsinki Final Act,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 44 (Feb. 2010), 67–81.

Steury, Donald P., “Strategic Warning: The cia and the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia,” in The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, ed. Günter Bischof, Stefan Karner, and Peter Ruggenthaler, 237–48. (Lanham: Lexington, 2010. xii, 510 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-7391-4304-9.)

Tovy, Tal, “Ideologia bereshit ha milchama haKara: Tochniot lehinuch mehadash bemilchamot Korea ve Vietnam” (Ideology and the Cold War: American re-education programs during the Korean and Vietnam wars), Zmanim (Tel Aviv), 108 (2009), 50–65. In Hebrew.

van Wyk, Martha, “Sunset over Atomic Apartheid: United States–South African Nuclear Relations, 1981–93,” Cold War History (London), 10 (Feb. 2010), 51–79.

 

Brands, Henry, “Latin America’s Cold War: An International History from Guevara to Reagan” (Yale University, 2009). Order No. DA3361881.

Galik, Angela E., “Queer Texts and the Cold War: How Nationalism and Domesticity Shaped U.S. Lesbian and Gay Writing, 1945–1960” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3360347.

Levin, Matthew, “The Sixties and the Cold War University: Madison, Wisconsin, and the Development of the New Left” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009). Order No. DA3368270.

Matthews, Eliza, “Bring the Bombs out of the Basement: The United States, the npt, and the Nuclear Non-signatories, 1961–1974” (University of Queensland, Australia, 2010).

Meeks, Jack D., “From the Belly of the huac: Investigations of Hollywood, 1947–1952” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2009). Order No. DA3359408.

Rakove, Robert Benjamin, “A Genuine Departure: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World” (University of Virginia, 2009). Order No. DA3362877.

Torok, John Edward, “‘Chinese Investigations’: Immigration Policy Enforcement in Cold War New York Chinatown, 1946–1965” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3353282.

 

Bischof, Günter, Stefan Karner, and Peter Ruggenthaler, eds., The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. (Lanham: Lexington, 2010. xii, 510 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-7391-4304-9.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Kashatus, William C., Dapper Dan Flood: The Controversial Life of a Congressional Power Broker. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. xiv, 350 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-271-03618-2.)

Oldenziel, Ruth, and Karin Zachmann, eds., Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users. (Cambridge: mit Press, 2009. x, 415 pp. $36.00, isbn 978-0-262-15119-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Sears, David, Such Men as These: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea. (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo, 2010. xiv, 395 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-0-306-81851-6.)

 

Beidler, Philip D., The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010. xii, 279 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8173-1684-6.)

For more citations in this and other categories, please consult Recent Scholarship Online.

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