What Did You Do in the Cold War, Daddy? (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by UNSW Press, Sydney, 2014
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Paperback. The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in. Family ties were tested, friendships were torn apart and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through twelve evocative stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from vastly different backgrounds explore how global political events affected the intimate space of home, family life and friendships.Some writers were barely in their teens when they felt the first touches of their parents' political lives, both on the Left and the Right. Others grew up in households well attuned to activism across the spectrum, including anti-communism, workers' rights, anti-Vietnam War, anti-apartheid and women's rights. Sifting through the key political and social developments in Australia from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, including the referendum to ban the Communist Party of Australia, the rise of 'the Movement' and the Labor split, and post-war migration, this book is a powerful and poignant telling of the ways in which the political is personal. The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in. Family ties were tested, friendships torn apart and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through 12 stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from different backgrounds explore how global political events affected the intimate space of home, family and friendship. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- What Did You Do in the Cold War, Daddy? (Paperback)
- Author
- Ann Curthoys
- Publisher
- UNSW Press, Sydney
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1742233910
- ISBN 13
- 9781742233918
In this book, through 12 evocative stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from vastly different backgrounds explore how global political events affected the intimate space of home, family life and friendships.
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About the Author
Joy Damousi is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. She has had a long-standing interest in Australian political history, beginning with her first book published twenty years ago on women in left-wing movements, Women Come Rally: Socialism, communism and gender in Australia 1890-1955 (1994). Since then she has written on various aspects of the politics and impact of war, migration and internationalism throughout the Cold War period. Her books include Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia (2001), Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (2005) and Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (2010). She is co-editor of Diversity in Leadership: Australian Women, Past and Present (2014).
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