Sensory warfare in the global Cold War : partition, propaganda, covert operations / edited by Bodo Mrozek.
| Other author | Mrozek, Bodo, 1968- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024] |
| Description | x, 254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Perspectives on sensory history Perspectives on sensory history. ^A1473588 |
| Contents | Introduction : sensory warfare in the global Cold War / Bodo Mrozek -- Chocolate paratroopers and Eisenhower packages for Eastern Europe : nourishing partition through color and taste / Victoria Phillips -- Between soir de Paris and red Moscow : olfactory front lines in Polish perfumery / Stephanie Weissman -- Beyond the bamboo curtain : sensing the Chinese cultural revolution / Cyril Cordoba -- Sensual sirens : gendering Berlin's Cold War telephony / Mark Fenemore -- Breaking the aquatic sound barrier : hearing yourself and your enemy across the Taiwan Strait / Dayton Lekner -- Listening to the voices of exile : Radio Free Europe in Romania / Andreea Deciu Ritivoi -- Hearing Korea, seeing Cuba : NO-DO as sonic and visual propaganda in Francoist Spain / José Manuel López Torán -- The smell of the Berlin Wall : olfactory border management at the inner-European frontier / Bodo Mrozek -- Hallucinated sensations : brainwashing and mind control in psychochemical CIA experiments / Walter E. Grunden -- To inform and deceive : sensory approaches in the military propaganda of Cold War Germany / Carsten Richter -- Sniffing the enemy : chemical detection during the Vietnam War / Christy Spackman -- Heroes at the Hindu Kush : seeing the Afghan War through the Soviet lens / Markus Mirschel. |
| Abstract | "Examines how the Cold War used and changed human sensoria in different stages of the conflict from partition to propaganda and secret warfare, and contributes to a better understanding of sensory aspects in ongoing and future conflicts"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2024022707 |
| ISBN | 9780271097404 |
| ISBN | 027109740X hardcover |
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