1st Edition
A Fearsome Heritage Diverse Legacies of the Cold War
334 Pages
by
Routledge
334 Pages
by
Routledge
333 Pages
by
Routledge
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From massive nuclear test sites to the more subtle material realities of everyday life, the influence of the Cold War on modern culture has been profound and global. Fearsome Legacies unites innovative work on the interpretation and management of Cold War heritage from fields including archaeology, history, art and architecture, and cultural studies. Contributors understand material culture in its... Read more
1: Introduction: Cold War, diversity and contemporary archaeology; 2: The Cold War in context: Archaeological explorations of private, public and political complexity; 3: A paradox of peace: The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) as world heritage; 4: Colonialism and the bomb in the Pacific; 5: An ideological vacuum: The Cold War in outer space; 6: Shaping military women since World War II; 7: Defining the national archaeological character of Cold War remains; 8: Greenham Common: The conservation and management of a Cold War archetype; 9: Out to the waste: Spadeadam and the Cold War; 10: Cood bay Forst Zinna; 11: The Berlin Wall: Border, fragment, world heritage?; 12: Cold War on the domestic front; 13: Voices in limbo: a conSPIracy cantata and The Buffer Zone; 14: The noise of war, the silence of the photograph; 15: Filming the end of the Cold War; 16: Reflections on nuclear submarines in the Cold War: Putting military technology in context for a history museum exhibit; 17: Archaeology of dissent: Landscape and symbolism at the Nevada Peace Camp
Biography
Dr John Schofield, Wayne Cocroft
