A World Made Safe for Differences: Cold War Intellectuals and the Politics of Identity

by Christopher Shannon

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In A World Made Safe for Differences, Christopher Shannon examines how an anthropological definition of culture shaped the central political and social narratives of the Cold War era. In the middle decades of the twentieth century, American intellectuals understood culture as a "whole way of life" and a "pattern of values" in order to account for and accommodate differences between America and other countries, and within America itself. Shannon...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:084769058X

ISBN13:9780847690589

Release Date:December 2005

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Length:184 Pages

Weight:0.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 8.6"

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Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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