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Innocent Weapons
Margaret E. Peacock
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Description for Innocent Weapons
Paperback. Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War Series: The New Cold War History. Num Pages: 304 pages, 29 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJD; HBJK; HBTW; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 1. Weight in Grams: 440.
In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war. In this provocative book, Margaret Peacock offers an original account of how Soviet and American leaders used emotionally charged images of children in an attempt to create popular support for their policies at home and abroad.
Groups on either side of the Iron Curtain pushed visions of endangered, abandoned, and segregated children to indict the enemy's state and its policies. Though the Cold War is often characterized as an ideological divide between the capitalist ... Read more
In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war. In this provocative book, Margaret Peacock offers an original account of how Soviet and American leaders used emotionally charged images of children in an attempt to create popular support for their policies at home and abroad.
Groups on either side of the Iron Curtain pushed visions of endangered, abandoned, and segregated children to indict the enemy's state and its policies. Though the Cold War is often characterized as an ideological divide between the capitalist ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
The New Cold War History
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469633442
SKU
V9781469633442
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About Margaret E. Peacock
Margaret Peacock is assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama.
Reviews for Innocent Weapons
Effectively challenges anthropological portrayals of childhood as strictly culture-bound. . . . Leaves us with a deeply uneasy sense of the political polyvalence of children and childhood-not just during the Cold War, but for our contemporary political moment as well.-Allegra Laboratory [A] masterful understanding of both US and Soviet politics and policy. . . . A distinct and useful ... Read more