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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Lyons, Tanya. "Guerrilla Girls and Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation Struggle." In Women in African Colonial Histories, edited by Jean Allman, Susan Geiger and Nakanyike Musisi, 305-326. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Lyons, Tanya. Guns and Guerilla Girls: Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation Struggle. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2004.
Maasri, Zeina. Off the Wall: Political Posters of the Lebanese Civil War. London: I.B. Tauris, 2008.
Macleod, Jenny. Defeat and Memory: Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
MacMaster, Neil. Burning the Veil: The Algerian War and the "Emancipation" of Muslim Women, 1954-62. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.
MacMaster, Neil. Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France, 1900-62. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Madsen, Grant. Sovereign Soldiers: How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
Maley, William. The Afghanistan Wars. 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Maloba, Wunyabari O. African Women in Revolution. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007.
Manley, Elizabeth S. The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and the Politics of Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2017.
Mansbridge, Jane J. Why we Lost the ERA. Chicago, I.L.: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Mariscal, George. "Mexican Americans and the Viet Nam War." In A Companion to the Vietnam War, edited by Marilyn B. Young and Robert Buzzanco, 348-366. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
Marshall, Kathryn. In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam, 1966-75. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1987.
Masuda, Hajimu. Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Matembe, Miria R. K., and Nancy R. Dorsey. Miria Matembe: Gender, Politics, and Constitution Making in Uganda. Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2002.
Maxwell, Jeremy P. Brotherhood in Combat: How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.
May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. 2nd ed. New York: Basic Books, 2008.
Mayers, David Allan. America and the Postwar World: Remaking International Society, 1945-1956 In Routledge studies in modern history. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.
McCallum, Claire E. The Fate of the New Man: Representing and Reconstructing Masculinity in Soviet Visual Culture, 1945-1965. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018.
McCormack, Jo. Collective Memory: France and the Algerian War (1954–1962). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.
McEnaney, Laura. "A Women’s Peace Dividend: Demobilization and Working Class Women in Chicago, 1945–1953." In Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989, edited by Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, 73-94. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
McEnaney, Laura. Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
McKay, Ian, and Jamie Swift. Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2012.
McLaughlin, Redmond. The Royal Army Medical Corps. London: L. Cooper, 1972.
McSorley, Kevin. War and the Body: Militarisation, Practice and Experience. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Meisler, Stanley. United Nations: A History. 2nd ed. New York: Grove Press, 2011.
Merridale, Catherine. Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth Century Russia. New York: Viking, 2001.
Metcalf, Barbara D., and Thomas R. Metcalf. A Concise History of Modern India. 3rd ed. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Meyerowitz, Joanne. Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1994.
Miller, Robert L., and Dennis Wainstock. Indochina and Vietnam: The Thirty-Five-Year War, 1940-1975. New York: Enigma Books, 2013.
Mišković, Nataša, Harald Fischer-Tiné, and Nada Boškovska Leimgruber. The Non-Aligned Movement and the Cold War: Delhi-Bandung-Belgrade. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Mjøset, Lars, and Stephen Van Holde. The Comparative Study of Conscription in the Armed Forces. Amsterdam: JAI, 2002.
Moeller, Robert. Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.

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