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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Peled, Yoav, Noah Lewin-Epstein, Gai Mundlaḳ, and Jean L. Cohen. Democratic Citizenship and War. New York; London: Routledge, 2011.
Penn, Shana, and Jill Massino. Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Penslar, Derek J. Jews and the Military: A History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.
Peteet, Julie Marie. Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Phillips, Kathy J. Manipulating Masculinity: War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Phillips, Kimberley L. War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Pieper-Mooney, Jadwiga E., and Fabio Lanza. De-Centering Cold War History: Local and Global Change. London: Routledge, 2013.
Poiger, Uta G. Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Pojmann, Wendy A. Italian Women and International Cold War Politics, 1944-1968. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.
Ponzanesi, Sandra. Gender, Globalization, and Violence: Postcolonial Conflict Zones. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Presley, Cora Ann. "Kikuyu Women and the Mau Mau Rebellion." In In Resistance: Studies in African, Caribbean, and Afro-American History, edited by Gary Y. Okihiro, 115-137. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.
Presley, Cora Ann. Kikuyu Women, the Mau Mau Rebellion, and Social Change in Kenya. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.
Pugliese, Stanislao G. Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy: 1919 to the Present. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
Quataert, Jean H. "War-Making and Restraint by Law: The Formative Years, 1864-1914." In The Cambridge History of War, edited by Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter and Hans van de Ven, 142-162. Vol. 4: War in the Modern World, 1850–2005. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Rae, Alexis. Mildred Mortimer, Women Fight, Women Write: Texts on the Algerian War. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Rastegar, Kamran. Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Regulska, Joanna, and Bonnie G. Smith. Women and Gender in Postwar Europe: From Cold War to European Union. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2012.
Rehding, Alexander. Music and Monumentality: Commemoration and Wonderment in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Reid, Susan E. ""Our Kitchen Is Just as Good": Soviet Responses to the American Kitchen." In Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology and European Users, edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann, 83-112. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
Reid, Susan E., Melanie Ilič, Susan E. Reid, and Lynne Attwood. "Women in the Home." In Women in the Khrushchev Era, 149-176. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Reynolds, David. The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Rhodes, Richard. Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race. London: Simon and Schuster, 2009.
Riesenberger, Dieter. Das Deutsche Rote Kreuz: Eine Geschichte 1864–1990. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2002.
Riesenberger, Dieter. Für Humanität in Krieg und Frieden: Das Internationale Rote Kreuz, 1863-1977. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992.
Roach, Jay. Trumbo. United States: Bleecker Street, 2015.
Robinson, Paul. Military Honour and the Conduct of War: From Ancient Greece to Iraq. London; New York: Routledge, 2006.
Rothberg, Michael. Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Rupp, Leila J., and Verta A. Taylor. Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Rushton, Patricia. Vietnam War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 18 Americans. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.
Ruthenberg, Amy. "Service by Other Means: Changing Perceptions of Military Service and Masculinity in the United States, 1940-1973." In Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989, edited by Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, 165-184. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Sa'di, Ahmad H., and Lila Abu-Lughod. Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Sajor, Indai Lourdes. Common Grounds: Violence Against Women in War and Armed Conflict Situations. Quezon City, Philippines: Asian Center for Women's Human Rights, 1998.

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