HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 65: Iran Hostage Crisis, Popular Front, American Jews
16 Apr 2016
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Melani mcalister a cultural history of the war without end, 439-455. George bush announced that the us was about to begin a new and diferent war, against terrorism that would need to be fought on all fronts. New war would be a diferent kind of war that requires a diferent type of approach and mentality. War against terror was a call for a broad and sustained commitment, one modeled in opposiion to the us vietnam involvement. As the 1980s progressed, ani-terrorism became the glue of a directly poliicized popular culture which worked to imagine american naional power in a global context. Benedict anderson, on naional ideniies in imes of crisis, all profound changes in consciousness, by their very nature, bring with them characterisics amnesias. Out of such oblivions, in speciic historical circumstances, spring narraives : narraives born from amnesia, promise to sitch together a patchwork past. Poliics of the diverse representaion of terrorism in recent decades.
