British Nuclear Mobilisation Since 1945 - Social and Cultural Histories

List of contents

Introduction: social and cultural histories of British nuclear mobilisation since 1945
Jonathan Hogg and Kate Brown
1. Mass observing the atom bomb: the emotional politics of August 1945
Claire Langhamer
2. ‘...what in the hell’s this?’ Rehearsing nuclear war in Britain’s Civil Defence Corps
Jessica Douthwaite
3. ‘Nuclear Prospects’: the siting and construction of Sizewell A power station 1957-1966
Christine Wall
4. Weaponising peace: the Greater London Council, cultural policy, and ‘GLC Peace Year 1983’
Hazel Atashroo
5. Resist and survive: Welsh protests and the British nuclear state in the 1980s
Christophe Laucht and Martin Johnes
6. Britain, West Africa and ‘The new nuclear imperialism’: decolonisation and development during French tests
Christopher Robert Hill

About the author

Jonathan Hogg is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century History at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is the author of British Nuclear Culture: Official and Unofficial Narratives in the Long Twentieth Century (Bloomsbury, 2016), and editor of the e-textbook Using Primary Sources (Liverpool University Press, 2017).
Kate Brown is Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Her numerous books include Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford, 2013), Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten (University of Chicago Press, 2015), and most recently Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future (Allen Lane, 2019).

Summary

This book explores aspects of the social and cultural history of nuclear Britain in the Cold War era (1945–1991) and contributes to a more multivalent exploration of the consequences of nuclear choices which are too often left unacknowledged by historians of post-war Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan (University of Liverpool Hogg
• Assisted by: Kate Brown (Editor), Brown Kate (Editor), Jonathan Hogg (Editor), Hogg Jonathan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367743116
• ISBN: 978-0-367-74311-6
• No. of pages: 132
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; History, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, HISTORY / Social History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, military history, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Modern warfare, Peace studies & conflict resolution, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General