Paradoxes of nostalgia : : Cold War triumphalism and global disorder since 1989 / / Penny Von Eschen.

"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 pa...

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Superior document:American encounters/global interactions
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Place / Publishing House:Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:American encounters/global interactions.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 382 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • The Ends of History
  • Out of Order: discordant Triumphalism and the "Clash of Civilizations"
  • Losing the Good Life: post-Cold War Malaise and the Enemy Within
  • "God I Miss the Cold War": busted Containers and Popular Nostalgia 1993-
  • Consuming Nostalgia: lampooning Lenin, Marketing Mao, and the Global Turn to the Right
  • Patriot Acts: staging the War on Terror from the Spy Museum to Bishkek
  • Spies R Us: paradoxes of U.S.-Russian Relations
  • Nostalgia for the Future.