DALE CARTER is Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the American Studies Center at the Department of English, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is the author of The Final Frontier: The Rise and Fall of the American Rocket State, and editor of Cracking the Ike Age: Aspects of Fifties America and Blood on the Nash Ambassador: Explorations in American Culture. - ROBIN CLIFTON is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of The Last Popular Rebellion: The Western Rising of 1685.

• Preface List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Foreword Introduction: Between Past and Prologue; D.Carter & R.Clifton PART I: WORLD WAR AND COLD WAR: MUSHROOMING CONFLICTS The Second World War: Not (Just) the Origins of the Cold War; W.F.Kimball Unconditional Surrender: The Dawn of the Atomic Age; L.C.Gardner PART II: PRIVATES ON PARADE: THE COLD WAR OF WORDS Mobilizing Culture: The State-Private Network and the CIA in the Early Cold War; W.S.Lucas Challenge and Response: Arnold Toynbee and the United States During the Cold War; R.Crockatt PART III: BEYOND THE POLICE ACTION: THE KOREAN WAR Waging Limited Conflict: The Impact of the Korean War on Anglo-American Relations, 1950-1953; P.Lowe War Crimes and Historical Memory: The United Nations Occupation of North Korea in 1950; B.Cumings PART IV: HEMISPHERES OF INFLUENCE: THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA The United States, Argentina, and the End of the First Perón Government, 1953-1955; M.Rapoport & C.Spiguel The Real Gap in the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Post Cold War Historiography and the Continuing Omission of Cuba; N.Miller Appendix Index