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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Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. London: Pluto, 1967.
Fast, Susan, and Kip Pegley. Music, Politics, and Violence. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012.
Fauri, Francesca, and Paolo Tedeschi. Novel Outlooks on the Marshall Plan: American Aid and European Re-Industrialization. Brussels; New York: Peter Lang, 2011.
Feder, Edna Lomsky, and Orna Sasson-Levy. Women Soldiers and Citizenship in Israel: Gendered Encounters With the State. London: Routeledge, 2018.
Fetherston, A. B. Towards a Theory of United Nations Peacekeeping. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena. The Ideal Refugees: Gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi Politics of Survival. Sydney, Australia: Syracuse University Press, 2014.
Fidelis, Malgorzata. Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Firme, Annemarie, and Ramona Hocker. Von Schlachthymnen und Protestsongs: Zur Kulturgeschichte des Verhältnisses von Musik und Krieg. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2006.
Folman, Ari. Vals Im Bashir / Waltz with Bashir. Israel, Germany, France: Sony Pictures Classics, 2008.
Forsythe, David P. The Humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Forth, Christopher E., and Bertrand Taithe. French Masculinities: History, Culture, and Politics. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Frazier, Jessica M. Women's Anti-War Diplomacy during the Vietnam War Era. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Frederiksen, Elke P., and Martha Kaarsberg Wallach. Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past: German Women Writers from Weimar to the Present. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
Freedman, Lawrence. The Cold War: A Military History (Freedman 2001). London: Cassell, 2001.
Freedman, Lawrence. War. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1994.
French, David. The British Way in Counter-Insurgency, 1945–1967. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Frevert, Ute. Militär und Gesellschaft im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1997.
Furedi, Frank. "The Demobilized African Soldier and the Blow to White Prestige." In Guardians of Empire: The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers c. 1700–1964, edited by David Killingray and David Omissi, 179-197. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.
Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin, 2007.
Garner, Karen. Shaping a Global Women's Agenda: Women's NGOs and Global Governance, 1925-85. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010.
Gellately, Robert, and Ben Kiernan. The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Gerhalter, Li, and Christa Hämmerle. Krieg-Politik-Schreiben: Tagebücher von Frauen (1918-1950). Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2015.
Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh. Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity During the Cold War. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.
Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E. Music and International History in the Twentieth Century. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015.
Giles, Wenona, and Jennifer Hyndman. Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Gillath, Nurit. "Women and Military Service in Israel, 1948–1967." In Soldatinnen: Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute, edited by Klaus Latzel, Franka Maubach and Silke Satjukow, 395-414. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011.
Gillespie, Marie, and Alban Webb. Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan Contact Zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012). New York: Routledge, 2013.
Ginio, Ruth. The French Army and Its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
Gleditsch, Nils Petter, and Olav Njølstad. Arms Races: Technological and Political Dynamics. Oslo: International Peace Research Institute, 1990.
Gleichmann, Peter, and Thomas Kühne. Massenhaftes Töten: Kriege und Genozide im 20. Jahrhundert. Essen: Klartext, 2004.
Goldman, Nancy Loring. Female Soldiers: Combatants or Noncombatants? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.
Gordon, Joel. Revolutionary Melodrama: Popular Film and Civic Identity in Nasser's Egypt. Chicago: Middle East Documentation Center, 2002.
Gore, Dayo F. Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War. New York: New York University Press, 2016.
Goscha, Christopher E., and Christian Ostermann. Connecting Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1945–1962. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.

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