Cold War

nationality

American

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

occupation / innovator as

historian

is a war that was not necessarily 'the fundamental shaper' of postwar society and assuming such can obscure other crucial developments such as the postwar welfare state..

As American historian Lizabeth Cohen has recently argued, the Cold War was not necessarily 'the fundamental shaper' of postwar society. An overriding preoccupation with the Cold War, Cohen argues in her book A Consumers Republic, 'can obscure other crucial developments. . . . One of these 'other crucial developments' in the postwar years, and one that has attracted a great deal of attention from historians, was the implementation of a postwar welfare state. James Struthers' The Limits of Affluence, for instance, reminds us of the importance of public welfare measures in these years of supposed widespread prosperity.

Lizabeth CohenThinkers

Lizabeth Cohen