Secondary Literature on the Cold War and Wars of Decolonization

This collection includes secondary literature on the themes covered by the Oxford Handbook on Gender, War and the Western World since 1600. We have also added select secondary literature on regions and themes the handbook does not cover. The majority of the texts are in English with some texts in French, German or Russian.

The most important wars for this period include:

  • Cold War (1946–91)
  • Arab-Israeli Conflicts (1947–)
  • War of Indonesian Independence (1945–49)
  • Korean War (1950–53)
  • African Wars for Independence (1952–)
  • Algerian War (1954–62)
  • Indochina Wars (1946–79)

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Belmonte, Laura A. "A Family Affair? Gender, the U.S. Information Agency, and Cold War Ideology, 1945-1960." In Culture and International History, edited by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht and Frank Schumacher, 79-93. New York: Berghahn Books, 2003.
Ben-Ze'ev, Efrat. Remembering Palestine in 1948: Beyond National Narratives. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Bender, Daniel E., and Jana K. Lipman. Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
Benjamin, Thomas. Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007.
Bennett, Huw C. Fighting the Mau Mau: The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Berger, Thomas U. War, Guilt, and World Politics after World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Bergman, Arlene Eisen. Women of Viet Nam. San Francisco, CA: Peoples Press, 1975.
Berry, Mike, and Greg Philo. Israel and Palestine: Competing Histories. London: Pluto Press, 2006.
Berry, Marie E. War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Bhebe, Ngwabi, and Terence Ranger. Society in Zimbabwe's Liberation War. London: James Currey, 1995.
Bhebe, Ngwabi, and Terence Ranger. Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War. London: J. Currey, 1995.
Biess, Frank, and Robert G. Moeller. Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.
Black, Allida. "Are Women ‘Human’? The UN and the Struggle to Recognize Women’s Rights as Human Rights." In The Human Rights Revolution: An International History, edited by Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde and William I. Hichcock, 133-158. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Black, Jeremy. European Warfare, 1815-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Black, Jeremy. The Cold War: A Military History (Black 2015). London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Black, Jeremy. Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Blom, Ida, and Sølvi Sogner. Med kjønnsperspektiv på norsk historie: fra vikingtid til 2000-årsskiftet. Oslo, Norway: Cappelen akademisk forlag, 1999.
Blomstedt, Larry. Truman, Congress, and Korea: The Politics of America's First Undeclared War. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
Bloxham, Donald, and Robert Gerwarth. Political Violence in Twentieth Century Europe. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Boggs, Carl, and Tom Pollard. The Hollywood War Machine: U.S. Militarism and Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 2007.
Bond, Brian. War and Society in Europe, 1870–1970. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998.
Branch, Daniel. Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Branche, Raphaëlle. La Guerre d'Algérie: Une histoire apaisée?. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2005.
Branche, Raphaëlle. La torture et l’armée pendant la Guerre d'Algérie, 1954–1962. Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
Branche, Raphaëlle, and Fabrice Virgili. Rape in Wartime. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Braudy, Leo. From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Brewer, Susan A. Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Brown, Timothy Scott. West Germany and the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962-1978. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Brownmiller, Susan. Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.
Brühöfener, Friederike. "Sending Young Men to the Barracks: West Germany’s Struggle over the Establishment of New Armed Forces in the 1950s." In Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989 , edited by Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, 145-164. Baltimore; Washington, DC: Johns Hopkins University Press ; Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2014.
Brun, Catherine, and Todd Shepard. Guerre d'Algérie : Le sexe outragé. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2016.
Bucher, Greta. Women, the Bureaucracy and Daily Life in Postwar Moscow, 1945-1953 In East European monographs ;; no. 682; Variation: East European monographs ;; no. 682. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 2006.
Bucur-Deckard, Maria. Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
Bunton, Martin. The Palestinian-Israel Conflict: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Burbank, Jane, and Frederick Cooper. Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Burg, B. R. Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
Cain, Shannon, and Lisa Bowden. Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq. Tucson, AZ: Kore Press, 2008.

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