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dc.contributor.authorNehring, Holger
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-31 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-03 09:09:28
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T14:57:16Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T14:57:16Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier456802
dc.identifierOCN: 868988258en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33830
dc.description.abstractThe Politics of Security tells the story of how people experienced the cold war as a war. It is about the impact of the cold war on political cultures. This crucial issue is often forgotten in historical memory. In particular, the book follows British and West German anti-nuclear-weapons activists in their attempts to campaign for and create security after the destruction of the Second World War, and how their own version of security clashed with concepts advanced by their own governments. But the book also demonstrates how, as part of the protests against nuclear weapons, activists and their societies learned to live with the Bomb: it recounts how activists first discovered the dangers of nuclear weapons, but how a different generation of activists came to focus on other issues as the Vietnam War became their primary concern. And it makes comprehensible how activists in two societies who had fought each other fiercely in the battle of dictatorships and democracies of the Second World War could now come to see each other as part of a common campaign. Fundamentally, with its transnational approach, the book highlights how these two societies drew on very similar arguments when they came to understand the cold war through the prism of the previous world war. The book is the first to capture in a transnational fashion what activists did on the marches and what it meant to them and to others. The book thus reminds us that threats are not merely out there, but that they need to be created in a political process that involves struggles for power and contestation.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesOxford Historical Monographs
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDU United Kingdom, Great Britainen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DF Central Europe::1DFG Germanyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTW Cold wars and proxy conflictsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relationsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagementen_US
dc.subject.othernuclear age
dc.subject.otheractivism
dc.subject.othertransnational history
dc.subject.othercold war
dc.subject.othersocial movements
dc.subject.otherpeace movements
dc.subject.otherpolitics of security
dc.subject.otherCampaign for Nuclear Disarmament
dc.subject.otherCreative Commons
dc.subject.otherCreative Commons license
dc.subject.otherEaster
dc.subject.otherWest Germany
dc.titlePolitics of Security: British and West German Protest Movements and the Early Cold War 1945-1970
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199681228.001.0001
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2
oapen.collectionOAPEN-UK
oapen.pages342
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_Nuclear_Disarmament; Cold War - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War; Creative Commons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons; Creative Commons license - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license; Easter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter; Nuclear weapon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon; West Germany - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany


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