ABSTRACT
The term ‘postwar’ in English generally refers to something simply ‘after a war’. Hence, neither does the word itself specify any particular war (e.g. the First World War, the Second World War, the Gulf War or even the Cold War), nor a single experience after a war. As Gluck writes,
not only was the postwar not the same as the cold war but there were multiple postwars in different countries and even within a single society. Each national history inscribed its postwar in a distinctive fashion, whether as national liberation, social experiment, economic growth, or the like.1
