Introduction: on writing the local within diplomatic history : trends, historiography, purpose / Jeffrey A. Engel and Katherine Carté Engel -- Exhibition and entertainment : Hollywood and the American reconstruction of defeated Japan / Hiroshi Kitamura -- The cultural contradictions of Cold War education : West Berlin and the youth revolt of the 1960s / Jeremi Suri -- The Cold War and the American South / Thomas Borstelmann -- The impact of the early Cold War on the American city : the aerospace industry in Seattle / Richard S. Kirkendall -- When the movie's over : the post-Cold War restructuring of Los Angeles / Michael Oden -- Cold War frontier : building the defense complex in Novosibirsk / Anita Seth -- Project Lamachus : the Cold War comes to Scotland : the Holy Loch U.S. nuclear submarine base and its impact on Scotland, 1959-1974 / Alan P. Dobson and Charlie Whitham -- Landscape change in central Europe and Staiin's postway strategy, 1945-1949 / Arvid Nelson -- Nuclear country : the militarization of the U.S. northern plains, 1954-1975 / Catherine McNicol Stock -- "At least in those days we had enough to eat" : colonialism, independence, and the Cold War in Catumbela, Angola, 1974-1977 / Jeremy Ball -- Cold War and colonialism : the case of East Timor / Luís Nuno Rodrigues.