It’s hard because Ditko Angst and Kirby Postwar Imagination is baked into the DNA. Obviously the comics have done it in spats, but the “realness” is what makes Marvel, Marvel.
Eu descobri isso lendo 'Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945' do Tony Judt. Eu fiquei chocado qdo descobri que 1/3 da populacao portuguesa NA DECADA DE 70 era analfabeta. Acho q isso explica muita coisa sobre o nosso descaso sobre educacao...
Yes, and even the postwar boom is much less dramatic in non-US Western countries. The whole exercise is a pop version of periodization and, like you said, has a lot to do with marketing. It can also be fun to argue about, for people who like that sort of thing.
It’s also a story of Black Americans — casting votes in the first free election in the country since 1872 — helping Humphrey get that close and becoming a critical part of the Democratic coalition, which (IMO) is just as important to postwar America as the white backlash Nixon embodied.
tyrone slothrop and his postwar bitch wife
'The agreement will allow a right of return for Chagossians, who the UK expelled from their homes in the 1960s and 1970s, in what has been described as a crime against humanity and one of the most shameful episodes of postwar colonialism.' And as could be predicted former PM says:
As a recent study put it’For much of the postwar domestic and international economic policy was subordinated to the goals of foreign policy’
I'm assigning a selection from it for my postwar US class this semester and still torn between what chapter(s) to give them!
I was also amused to discover that they made the film in Dublin, presumably because in the 1960s it was grim enough to pass for postwar Berlin