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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Keohane, Jennifer. Communist Rhetoric and Feminist Voices in Cold War America. Lanham, MA: Lexington Books, 2018.
Keylor, William R. A World of Nations: The International Order since 1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Khazaal, Natalie. Pretty Liar: Television, Language, and Gender in Wartime Lebanon. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018.
Kidd, William, and Brian Murdoch. Memory and Memorials: The Commemorative Century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
Kieran, David, and Edwin A. Martini. At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond In War culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018.
Kindsvatter, Peter. American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
Knauer, Christine. Let Us Fight As Free Men: Black Soldiers and Civil Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Koikari, Mire. Cold War Encounters in US-occupied Okinawa: Women, Militarized Domesticity and Transnationalism in East Asia. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Koikari, Mire. Pedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008.
Koliopoulos, Giannēs. Plundered Loyalties: World War II and Civil War in Greek West Macedonia. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
Kort, Michael G. The Vietnam War Re-Examined. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
D. Kousoulas, George. Revolution and Defeat: The Story of the Greek Communist Party. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
Kriger, Norma J. Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Kronsell, Annica. Gender, Sex and the Postnational Defense: Militarism and Peacekeeping. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Kronsell, Annica, and Erika Svedberg. Making Gender, Making War: Violence, Military and Peacekeeping Practices. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Kučera, Tomáš. The Military and Liberal Society: Societal-Military Relations in Western Europe In Cass military studies. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Lan, David. Guns & Rain: Guerrillas & Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985.
Latzel, Klaus, Franka Maubach, and Silke Satjukow. Soldatinnen: Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011.
Laville, Helen. Cold War Women: The International Activities of American Women's Organisations. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002.
Laville, Helen. "Gender and Women's Rights in the Cold War." In The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War, edited by Richard H. Immerman and Petra Goedde, 523-539. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Lawrence, Mark Atwood. The Vietnam War: A Concise International History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Lazreg, Marnia. The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Lazreg, Marnia. Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Levering, Ralph B. The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History. 3rd ed. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
Lewis, Carolyn Herbst. Prescriptions for Heterosexuality: Sexual Citizenship in the Cold War Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Liddington, Jill. The Road to Greenham Common: Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since 1820. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1991.
Lim, Jie-Hyun, and Karen Petrone. Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Linden, Marcel van der, and Gottfried Mergner. Kriegsbegeisterung und mentale Kriegsvorbereitung: Interdisziplinäre Studien. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1991.
Lonsdale, John. "Authority, Gender & Violence: The War Within Mau Mau's Fight for Land & Freedom." In Mau Mau & Nationhood: Arms, Authority & Narration, edited by E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and John Lonsdale, 46-75. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2003.
Lorentzen, Lois Ann, and Jennifer E. Turpin. The Women and War Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Louis, William Roger. Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.
Lowe, Keith. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012.
Lowe, Keith. The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Lowery, Donna A. Women Vietnam Veterans: Our Untold Stories. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2015.

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