Return From the Natives - How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War

Informationen zum Autor Peter Mandler is professor of modern cultural history at the University of Cambridge. Among his books is The English National Character, published by Yale. He lives in Cambridge and London. Klappentext Part intellectual biography, part cultural history, and part history of the human sciences, this book examines the anthropology behind the Second World War and Cold War. Zusammenfassung Part intellectual biography! part cultural history! and part history of the human sciences! this book is a reminder that the Second World War and the Cold War were a clash of cultures! not just ideologies. It examines how far intellectuals should involve themselves in politics. It also looks at US' relationship with Afghanistan! Iraq and Iran.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Mandler, Mandler Peter
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2013
• EAN: 9780300187854
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18785-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); History, HISTORY / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural anthropology