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International History: A Cultural Approach offers an innovative
history of modern international relations that stresses cultural
themes. In place of the usual focus on great-power rivalries,
diplomatic negotiations, military conflict, and other phenomena in
which sovereign nations are the key players, this book focuses on
intercultural relations as individuals, races, religions, and
non-state actors interact across national boundaries, to provide a
fresh perspective on modern international history. Among the themes
covered are: - Nationalism and cosmopolitanism - Migration -
Cross-cultural encounters - Consumerism and youth cultures -
Environmental transformations - Economic and technological
globalization Akira Iriye and Petra Goedde's approach offers a
deeper understanding of international history, focusing on people
and their cultures rather than just state level interactions.
International History: A Cultural Approach offers an innovative
history of modern international relations that stresses cultural
themes. In place of the usual focus on great-power rivalries,
diplomatic negotiations, military conflict, and other phenomena in
which sovereign nations are the key players, this book focuses on
intercultural relations as individuals, races, religions, and
non-state actors interact across national boundaries, to provide a
fresh perspective on modern international history. Among the themes
covered are: - Nationalism and cosmopolitanism - Migration -
Cross-cultural encounters - Consumerism and youth cultures -
Environmental transformations - Economic and technological
globalization Akira Iriye and Petra Goedde's approach offers a
deeper understanding of international history, focusing on people
and their cultures rather than just state level interactions.
Global Interdependence provides a new account of world history from
the end of World War II to the present, an era when transnational
communities began to challenge the long domination of the
nation-state. In this single-volume survey, leading scholars
elucidate the political, economic, cultural, and environmental
forces that have shaped the planet in the past sixty years.
Offering fresh insight into international politics since 1945,
Wilfried Loth examines how miscalculations by both the United
States and the Soviet Union brought about a Cold War conflict that
was not necessarily inevitable. Thomas Zeiler explains how American
free-market principles spurred the creation of an entirely new
economic order--a global system in which goods and money flowed
across national borders at an unprecedented rate, fueling growth
for some nations while also creating inequalities in large parts of
the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. From an environmental
viewpoint, J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke contend that humanity
has entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene era, in which massive
industrialization and population growth have become the most
powerful influences upon global ecology. Petra Goedde analyzes how
globalization has impacted indigenous cultures and questions the
extent to which a generic culture has erased distinctiveness and
authenticity. She shows how, paradoxically, the more cultures
blended, the more diversified they became as well. Combining these
different perspectives, volume editor Akira Iriye presents a model
of transnational historiography in which individuals and groups
enter history not primarily as citizens of a country but as
migrants, tourists, artists, and missionaries--actors who create
networks that transcend traditional geopolitical boundaries.
Explores the surprising diversity of fathers and fatherhood
throughout American history and society The nuclear family has been
endlessly praised as the bedrock of American society, even though
there has rarely been a time in history when a majority of
Americans lived in such families. This book deconstructs the myth
of the nuclear family by presenting the rich diversity of family
lives in American history from the American Revolution to the
twenty-first century. To tell this story, Jurgen Martschukat
focuses on fathers and their relations to families and American
society. Using biographical close-ups of twelve different
characters, each embedded in historical context, American
Fatherhood provides a much more realistic picture of how fatherhood
has been performed within different kinds of families. Each
protagonist covers a crucial period or event in American history,
presents a different family constellation, and makes a different
argument with regard to how American society is governed through
the family.
During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D.
Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do
more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that
people want peace so much that one of these days our governments
had better get out of the way and let them have it." At that very
moment international peace organizations were bypassing national
governments to create alternative institutions for the promotion of
world peace and mounting the first serious challenge to the
state-centered conduct of international relations. This study
explores the emerging politics of peace, both as an ideal and as a
pragmatic aspect of international relations, during the early cold
war. It traces the myriad ways in which a broad spectrum of people
involved in and affected by the cold war used, altered, and fought
over a seemingly universal concept. These dynamic interactions
involved three sets of global actors: cold war states, peace
advocacy groups, and anti-colonial liberationists. These
transnational networks challenged and eventually undermined the
cold war order. They did so not just with reference to the United
States, the Soviet Union, and Western Europe, but also by
addressing the violence of national liberation movements in the
Third World. As Petra Goedde shows in this work, deterritorializing
the cold war reveals the fractures that emerged within each cold
war camp, as activists both challenged their own governments over
the right path toward global peace and challenged each other over
the best strategy to achieve it. The Politics of Peace demonstrates
that the scientists, journalists, publishers, feminists, and
religious leaders who drove the international discourse on peace
after World War II laid the groundwork for the eventual political
transformation of the Cold War.
The third volume for the OUP/National History Center series,
Reinterpreting History, this book offers a critical look at the
political movement encompassed by human rights, a term rarely used
before the 1940s. An agenda for human rights, with particular
attention to international justice in the wake of crimes against
humanity, women's rights, indigenous rights, the right to health
care, all developed in the second half of the 20th century. Drawing
on the work of legal scholars, political scientists, journalists,
activists, and historians, human rights as a field of research has
been characterized by analysis of natural rights, study of key
documents like the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
discussion of activism and NGOs, and analysis of rhetoric. This
volume will take a case study approach that will shed light on
different perspectives, methodologies, and conceptualizations for
the study of human rights history. The contributors to this volume
look at the wave of human rights legislation emerging out of World
War II, including the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the Nuremberg
trial, and the Geneva Conventions, and the flowering of human
rights activity in the 1970s and beyond, including anti-torture
campaigns and Amnesty International, Indonesia and East Timor,
international scientists and human rights, and female genital
mutilation. The book concludes with a look at the UN Declaration at
its 60th anniversary. Together the group of renowned senior and
junior scholars create a volume that can introduce students from a
range of disciplines to this topic, as well as offer new
perspectives for scholars.
The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War offers a broad reassessment of
the period based on new conceptual frameworks developed in the
field of international history. Nearing the 25th anniversary of its
end, the cold war now emerges as a distinct period in
twentieth-century history, yet one which should be evaluated within
the broader context of global political, economic, social, and
cultural developments. The editors have brought together leading
scholars in cold war history to offer a new assessment of the state
of the field and identify fundamental questions for future
research. The individual chapters in this volume evaluate both the
extent and the limits of the cold war's reach in world history.
They call into question orthodox ways of ordering the chronology of
the cold war and also present new insights into the global
dimension of the conflict. Even though each essay offers a unique
perspective, together they show the interconnectedness between cold
war and national and transnational developments, including
long-standing conflicts that preceded the cold war and persisted
after its end, or global transformations in areas such as human
rights or economic and cultural globalization. Because of its broad
mandate, the volume is structured not along conventional
chronological lines, but thematically, offering essays on
conceptual frameworks, regional perspectives, cold war instruments,
and cold war challenges. The result is a rich and diverse account
of the ways in which the cold war should be positioned within the
wider context of world history.
At the end of World War II roughly 300,000 American GIs were
deployed as occupation forces in Germany. Many of them quickly
developed intimate relations with their former enemies. Those
informal interactions played a significant role in the
transformation of Germany from enemy to ally of the United States,
argues Petra Goedde in her engrossing book. Goedde finds that as
American soldiers fraternized with German civilians, particularly
as they formed sexual relationships with women, they developed a
feminized image of Germany that contrasted sharply with their
wartime image of the aggressive Nazi stormtrooper. A perception of
German "victimhood" emerged that was fostered by the German
population and adopted by Americans. According to Goedde, this new
view of Germany provided a foundation for the political
rapprochement that developed between the two countries even before
the advent of the Cold War. Her provocative findings suggest that
the study of foreign relations should focus on interactions not
only between politicians and diplomats but also between ordinary
citizens.
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