Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Cold War"
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Activism and Music in Poland, 1978-1989
(2013-03-08)This dissertation presents a historical study of intersections between music and activism in Poland from the election of Cardinal Karol Wojtyła as Pope John Paul II in 1978 to Poland’s first democratic elections in 1989. ... -
The International History of the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1968
(2014-06-06)The deposition of Imam Muhammad al-Badr in September 1962 was the culmination of a Yemeni nationalist movement that began in the 1940s with numerous failed attempts to overthrow the traditional religious legal order. Prior ... -
Sinophone Circuits: Chinese-language Cultural Production, Southeast Asia, and the Cold War
(2021-08-24)This dissertation examines the transnational literary and media practices that characterized Sinophone Southeast Asian cultural production during the Cold War to reconsider the theoretical contentions of the Sinophone ... -
The Gulf War: An International History, 1989-1991
(2023-06-01)This dissertation uses the Gulf War of 1991 as a lens through which to explore competing American and Arab visions of sovereignty and order at the dawn of the post-Cold War era. It argues for expanding the aperture of the ... -
The Year of the Earth (1957-1958): Cold War Science and the Making of Planetary Consciousness
(2021-05-13)Collective human knowledge about Earth as an environmental system has expanded since the Second World War in tandem with a rapid acceleration of human interventions in the natural world. Present-day environmentalists call ... -
Uneasy Friends and Convenient Enemies: Sino-Japanese Competition and Coordination in Cold War Asia, 1950–1972
(2023-05-09)The two decades between the founding of the People’s Republic of China and its diplomatic normalization with Japan presented unique challenges and opportunities to countries throughout the region. On the one hand, Beijing ...