The Cambridge History of the Cold War

The Cambridge History of the Cold War

ISBN-10:
0521837197
ISBN-13:
9780521837194
Pub. Date:
04/30/2010
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521837197
ISBN-13:
9780521837194
Pub. Date:
04/30/2010
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge History of the Cold War

The Cambridge History of the Cold War

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Overview

This volume examines the origins, causes and early years of the Cold War. Leading scholars show how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic, and socio-political environment of the two world wars and the interwar period as well as examining how markets, ideas, and cultural interactions affected political discourse, diplomatic events, and strategic thinking. Chapters focus not only on the USA, the USSR, and Great Britain, but also on other critical regions such as Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and East Asia. They deal not only with the most influential statesmen of the era but also address the issues that mattered most to peoples around the globe: food, nutrition, and resource allocation; demography and consumption; ethnicity, race, and religion; science and technology; national autonomy, self-determination, and sovereignty. In so doing, the book illuminates how people worldwide shaped the evolution of the increasingly bipolar conflict, and, in turn, were ensnared by it.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521837194
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 04/30/2010
Series: Cambridge History of the Cold War Series
Pages: 664
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Melvyn P. Leffler is Edward R. Stettinius Professor of American History at the Department of History, University of Virginia. His previous publications include To Lead the World: American Strategy After the Bush Doctrine (2008, as co-editor), For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (2007) and A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration and the Cold War (1992, winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Robert Ferrell Prize and the Herbert Hoover Book Award).

Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His previous publications include The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (2005, winner of the Bancroft Prize, the APSA New Political Science Prize, and the Akira Iriye Award), Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950 (2003) and Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963 (1999, as editor).

Table of Contents

Preface to Volumes One, Two and Three; 1. Grand strategies in the Cold War John Lewis Gaddis; 2. Identity and the Cold War Robert Jervis; 3. Economic aspects of the Cold War, 1962–1975 Richard N. Cooper; 4. The Cuban Missile Crisis James G. Hershberg; 5. Nuclear competition in an era of stalemate, 1963–1975 William Burr and David Alan Rosenberg; 6. US foreign policy from Kennedy to Johnson Frank Costigliola; 7. Soviet foreign policy, 1962–1975 Svetlana Savranskaya and William Taubman; 8. France, 'Gaullism', and the Cold War Frédéric Bozo; 9. European integration and the Cold War N. Piers Ludlow; 10. Détente in Europe, 1962–1975 Jussi M. Hanhimäki; 11. Eastern Europe: Stalinism to solidarity Anthony Kemp-Welch; 12. The Cold War and the transformation of the Mediterranean, 1960–1975 Ennio Di Nolfo; 13. The Cold War in the Third World, 1963–1975 Michael E. Latham; 14. The Indochina Wars and the Cold War, 1945–1975 Fredrik Logevall; 15. The Cold War in the Middle East: Suez crisis to Camp David Accords Douglas Little; 16. Cuba and the Cold War, 1959–1980 Piero Gleijeses; 17. The Sino-Soviet split Sergey Radchenko; 18. Détente in the Nixon-Ford years, 1969–1976 Robert D. Schulzinger; 19. Nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation during the Cold War Francis J. Gavin; 20. Intelligence in the Cold War Christopher Andrew; 21. Reading, viewing and tuning-in to the Cold War Nicholas J. Cull; 22. Counter-cultures: the rebellions against the Cold War order, 1965–1975 Jeremi Suri; 23. The structure of great power politics, 1963–1975 Marc Trachtenberg; 24. The Cold War and the social and economic history of the twentieth century Wilfried Loth.

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