Framing History: The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Framing History: The Rosenberg Story and the Cold War
By (Author) Virginia Carmichael
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st November 1992
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Espionage and secret services
History: theory and methods
Cultural studies
327.091713
Physical Properties
Paperback
328
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 18mm
Description
In 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and were subsequently executed for treason. Virginia Carmichael here uses their story to consider the function of narrative in the formation of history. Carmichael argues that the Rosenberg story constituted a social drama (as yet unresolved) that inaugurated the elaboration of many stories serving multiple interests and functions. The story itself was an embedded narrative in the developing Cold War, both required by that Cold War frame narrative and at the same time furthering its construction.
