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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Gossage, Peter, and Robert Rutherdale. Making Men, Making History: Canadian Masculinities across Time and Place. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2018.
Gray, Chris Hables. Postmodern War: The New Politics of Conflict. New York: Guilford Press, 1997.
Groot, Gerard J. de, and Corinna M. Peniston-Bird. A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000.
Gruhzit-Hoyt, Olga. A Time Remembered: American Women in the Vietnam War. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1999.
Guillemot, François. Des Vietnamiennes dans la Guerre Civile: L'Autre Moitié de la Guerre, 1945-1975. Paris: Les Indes savantes, 2014.
Hafeneger, Benno, Michael Fritz, Peter Krahulec, Ralf Thaetner, and Michael Buddrus. Ein Lesebuch zur Kriegsbegeisterung junger Männer. Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel.
Hagemann, Karen, and Sonya Michel. Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Hagemann, Karen, Stefan Dudink, and Sonya O. Rose. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Hall, Mitchell K. The Vietnam War. Cambridge and New York: Routledge, 2018.
Hallward, Maia Carter. Struggling for a Just Peace: Israeli and Palestinian Activism in the Second Intifada. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2011.
Hardy, Michel Serge. De la morale au moral des troupes ou l'histoire des B.M.C. 1918-2004. Panazol, France: Lavauzelle, 2004.
Harrington, Carol. Politicization of Sexual Violence: From Abolitionism to Peacekeeping. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010.
Harsch, Donna. Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Hartmann, Anja, and Heuser, Beatrice. War, Peace, and World Orders in European History. London: Routledge, 2001.
Hasso, Frances Susan. Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005.
Hautreux, François-Xavier. La Guerre d'Algérie des harkis, 1954–1962. Paris: Perrin, 2013.
Hayes, Paddy. Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master. New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2018.
Healey, Dan. Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018.
Heberle, Mark. Thirty Years After: New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film, and Art. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publications, 2009.
Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America: From the Indian Wars to the Vietnam War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
Heineman, Elizabeth D. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2011.
Helgren, Jennifer. American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017.
Herf, Jeffrey. Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Herren, Madeleine. Internationale Organisationen seit 1865: Eine Globalgeschichte der internationalen Ordnung. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2009.
Herzog, Dagmar. Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Herzog, Dagmar. Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Herzog, Dagmar. Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth Century History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Hey, Barbara, Cécile Huber, and Karin Maria Schmidlechner. Krieg, Geschlecht und Gewalt. Graz: Leykam, 1999.
Higate, Paul R. Military Masculinities: Identity and the State. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.
Higman, Barry William. A Concise History of the Caribbean. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Hillman, Elizabeth Lutes. Defending America: Military Culture and the Cold War Court-Martial. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Hilsum, Lindsey. In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Hobsbawm, Eric J. The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914–1991. London: Abacus, 1994.
Hodgson, Godfrey. The Myth of American Exceptionalism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
Höhn, Maria. GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Hohrath, Daniel, and Sönke Neitzel. Kriegsgreuel: Die Entgrenzung der Gewalt in kriegerischen Konflikten vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert In Kriegsgreuel: Die Entgrenzung der Gewalt in kriegerischen Konflikten vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. The German Atrocities in the War of 1870/71 Using the Example of the Bavarians. Paderborn, Germany: Schöningh, 2008.
Hollihan, Kerrie Logan. Reporting under Fire: 16 Daring Women War Correspondents and Photojournalists In Women of action; Variation: Women of action (Chicago, Ill.). Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2014.

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