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What Did You Do in the Cold War, Daddy?
Personal Stories from a Troubled Time
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eBook - ePub
What Did You Do in the Cold War, Daddy?
Personal Stories from a Troubled Time
About this book
The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in: family ties were tested, friendships were torn apart, and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through 12 evocative stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from vastly different backgrounds explore how global political events affected the intimate space of home, family life, and friendships. Some writers were barely in their teens when they felt the first touches of their parents' political lives, both on the Left and the Right. Others grew up in households well attuned to activism across the spectrum, including anticommunism, workers' rights, anti-Vietnam War, antiapartheid, and women's rights. Sifting through the key political and social developments in Australia from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, including the referendum to ban the Communist Party of Australia, the rise of "the Movement" and the Labor split, and postwar migration, this book is a powerful and poignant telling of the ways in which the political is personal.
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Yes, you can access What Did You Do in the Cold War, Daddy? by Ann Curthoys,Joy Damousi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & 20th Century History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Ann Curthoys and Joy Damousi
- 1. Martin Krygier: An intimate and foreign affair
- 2. Valerie Cooms: The workers united will never be defeated!
- 3. Lyndall Ryan: Caught out: Edna and Jack Ryan and the 1951 referendum
- 4. John Docker: Troubled reflections on my father
- 5. Peter Manning: In the middle of a dream
- 6. Patrick Brislan: My Cold War
- 7. Rodney Cavalier: A war I did not know about that influenced me so much
- 8. Mark Aarons: Scenes from my Cold War
- 9. Mary Elizabeth Calwell: How we survived ‘the Movement’
- 10. Ron Witton: Growing up and living with the Cold War
- 11. George Zangalis: A political life
- 12. Sheila Fitzpatrick: The Cold War as remembered by the children of the Old Left
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index