The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow but also in the social and political arenas of geographically far-flung countries emerging from colonial rule. Moreover, Cold War tensions were manifest not only in global political disputes but also in struggles over technology. Technological systems and expertise offered a power...(展开全部)

Awards and Recognition Shortlisted for the MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association Winner of the MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year How did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Cold War, Peter Kalliney explores the various ways that rival states used cu...(展开全部)

Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, "Archives of Authority" argues that cultural politics - specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts - played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critic...(展开全部)

Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, "Archives of Authority" argues that cultural politics - specifically America's often covert patronage of the arts - played a highly important role in the transfer of imperial authority from Britain to the United States during a critic...(展开全部)

In this capacious transnational film history, renowned scholar Masha Salazkina proposes a groundbreaking new framework for understanding the cinematic cultures of twentieth-century socialism. Taking as a point of departure the vast body of work screened at the Tashkent International Festival of Cinemas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, World Socialist C...(展开全部)

In this capacious transnational film history, renowned scholar Masha Salazkina proposes a groundbreaking new framework for understanding the cinematic cultures of twentieth-century socialism. Taking as a point of departure the vast body of work screened at the Tashkent International Festival of Cinemas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, World Socialist C...(展开全部)

War and Peace in The Global Village is a collage of images and text that sharply illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man.Marshall McLuhan wrote this book thirty years ago and following its publication predicted that the forthcoming information age would be "a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest."Marshall McLuhan illustrates ...(展开全部)

艾瑞克·霍布斯鲍姆（1917—2012），1917年出生于埃及亚历山大城的犹太中产家庭，后迁居维也纳和柏林。1933年因希特勒掌权而转赴英国，完成中学教育，并进入剑桥大学学习历史。他于1936年加入共产党，1947成为伦敦大学伯贝克学院讲师，1978年成为该校经济及社会史荣誉教授。2012年10月1日，病逝于伦敦，享年95岁。 霍布斯鲍姆研究的历史时期以19世纪为主，并延伸及17、18和20世纪；研究的地区则从英国、欧洲，广至拉丁美洲。除专业领域外，霍氏也经常撰写政治评论、历史学和社会学理论文章，以及艺术、文化批评等。他在劳工运动、农**动和世界史范畴中的研究成果，在学术界有很大影响；而其宏观通畅的写作风格，更将叙述史学的魅力扩及大众。他的著作甚丰，先后计有14部以上专著问世，包括《革命的年代》《资本的年代》《帝国的年代》《极端的年代》《盗匪》《民族...(展开全部)

艾瑞克·霍布斯鲍姆（1917—2012），1917年出生于埃及亚历山大城的犹太中产家庭，后迁居维也纳和柏林。1933年因希特勒掌权而转赴英国，完成中学教育，并进入剑桥大学学习历史。他于1936年加入共产党，1947成为伦敦大学伯贝克学院讲师，1978年成为该校经济及社会史荣誉教授。2012年10月1日，病逝于伦敦，享年95岁。 霍布斯鲍姆研究的历史时期以19世纪为主，并延伸及17、18和20世纪；研究的地区则从英国、欧洲，广至拉丁美洲。除专业领域外，霍氏也经常撰写政治评论、历史学和社会学理论文章，以及艺术、文化批评等。他在劳工运动、农**动和世界史范畴中的研究成果，在学术界有很大影响；而其宏观通畅的写作风格，更将叙述史学的魅力扩及大众。他的著作甚丰，先后计有14部以上专著问世，包括《革命的年代》《资本的年代》《帝国的年代》《极端的年代》《盗匪》《民族...(展开全部)

In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modernization to the developing world. Architecture in Global Socialism shows how their collaboration reshaped five cities in the Global South: Accra, Lagos, Baghdad, Abu ...(展开全部)