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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Moghadam, Valentine M. Gender and National Identity: Women and Politics in Muslim Societies. London: Zed Books, 1994.
Monahan, Evelyn, and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee. A Few Good Women: America's military women from World War I to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Monnickendam, Andrew, and Aránzazu Usandizaga. Dressing Up For War: Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.
Moor, Jaap de. "The Recruitment of Indonesian Soldiers for the Dutch Colonial Army, c. 1700–1950." In Guardians of Empire: The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers c. 1700-1964, edited by David Killingray and David Omissi, 53-69. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.
Morag, Raya. Defeated Masculinity: Post-Traumatic Cinema in the Aftermath of War. Brussels, Belgium: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2009.
Moran, Daniel, and Arthur Waldron. The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization Since the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Mortimer, Mildred P. Women Fight, Women Write: Texts on the Algerian War. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Most, Andrea. Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Moyn, Samuel. Human Rights and the Uses of History. London: Verso, 2014.
Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War: A Global Perspective, Edited by Philip E. Muehlenbeck. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2017.
Münkler, Herfried. The New Wars. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2005.
Mushikiwabo, Louise, and Jack Kramer. Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007.
Naimark, Norman, and Leonid Gibianskii. The Establishment of Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944–1949. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
Nalty, Bernard C. Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military. New York: Free Press, 1986.
Nasser, Riad M. Recovered Histories and Contested Identities: Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.
Naumann, Klaus. Nachkrieg in Deutschland. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2001.
Neiberg, Michael S. Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe. New York: Basic Books, 2015.
Neuhaus, Susan J., and Sharon Mascall-Dare. Not for Glory: A Centenary of Service by Medical Women to the Australian Army and Its Allies. Salisburg, Australia: Boolarong Press, 2014.
Nhongo-Simbanegavi, Josephine. For Better or Worse?: Women and ZANLA in Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle. Avondale, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press, 2000.
Nieden, Susanne zur. "Erotic Fraternization: The Legend of German Women's Quick Surrender." In Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 297-310. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002.
Niehuss, Merith. Familie, Frau und Gesellschaft: Studien zur Strukturgeschichte der Familie in Westdeutschland 1945-1960. Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001.
Nikolic-Ristanovic, Vesna. Social Change, Gender, and Violence: Post-Communist and War Affected Societies. London: Dordrecht , 2011.
Ninkovich, Frank A. The Diplomacy of Ideas: U.S. Foreign Policy and Cultural Relations, 1938-1950. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Nolan, Mary. "Consuming America, Producing Gender." In The American Century in Europe, edited by Laurence R. Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna, 243-261. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Noonan, Norma C., and Carol Nechemias. Encyclopedia of Russian Women's Movements. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Norman, Elizabeth. Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.
Ocobock, Paul. An Uncertain age: the Politics of Manhood in Kenya. Athens, OH: Ohio Univeristy Press, 2017.
Odhiambo, E. S. Atieno, and John Lonsdale. Mau Mau & Nationhood: Arms, Authority & Narration. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2003.
Oldenziel, Ruth, and Karin Zachmann. Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.
Orford, Anne. Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Paletscheck, Sylvia, and Sylvia Schraut. "Introduction: Gender and Memory Culture in Europe: Female Representations in Historical Perspective." In The Gender of Memory: Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century-Europe, edited by Sylvia Paletscheck and Sylvia Schraut, 7-30. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2008.
Paletschek, Sylvia, and Sylvia Schraut. The Gender of Memory: Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2008.
Palmié, Stephan, and Francisco A. Scarano. The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Paoletti, Ciro. A Military History of Italy. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008.
Parenti, Michael. To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia. London: Verso, 2000.
Paret, Peter, Beth Irwin Lewis, and Paul Paret. Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Hoover Institution Archives. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Pearlman, Wendy. Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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