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Paradoxes of Nostalgia - Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989 (Paperback)
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Paradoxes of Nostalgia - Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989 (Paperback)
Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
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In Paradoxes of Nostalgia Penny M. Von Eschen offers a sweeping
examination of the cold war's afterlife and the lingering shadows
it casts over geopolitics, journalism, and popular culture. She
shows how myriad forms of nostalgia across the globe-from those
that posit a mythic national past to those critical of
neoliberalism that remember a time when people believed in the
possibility of a collective good-indelibly shape the post-cold war
era. When Western triumphalism moved into the global South and
former Eastern bloc spaces, many articulated a powerful sense of
loss and a longing for stability. Innovatively bringing together
diplomatic archives, museums, films, and video games, Von Eschen
shows that as the United States continuously sought new enemies for
its unipolar world, cold war triumphalism fueled the ascendancy of
xenophobic right-wing nationalism and the embrace of authoritarian
sensibilities in the United States and beyond. Ultimately, she
demonstrates that triumphalist claims that capitalism and military
might won the cold war distort the past and disfigure the present,
undermining democratic values and institutions.
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