Cold War: a World History: A World History The
- ISBN-10
- 0141979917
- ISBN-13
- 9780141979915
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 720
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-07
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Author
- Odd Arne Westad
Description
As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment- the Cold War. For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely. This is a book of extraordinary scope and daring. It is conventional to see the first half of the 20th century as a nightmare and the second half as a reprieve. Westad shows that for much of the world the second half was by most measures even worse.
Get the book
Similar books
-
The Cold War: A World History
By Odd Arne WestadQuoted in Michael Beschloss, ed., Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963–1964 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), 401–3. 5. Quoted in Andrew Preston, The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam (Cambridge, ...
-
The Cold War: An International History
By David PainterHardly any part of the world escaped its influence. David Painter provides a compact and analytical study that examines the origins, course, and end of the Cold War.
-
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
By Odd Arne WestadWhen parts of the army rebelled in order to reinstate the constitutional order two years later, the Johnson administration feared that the leftist forces among the ''constitutionalists'' could get the upper hand, with or without the ...
-
Origins of the Cold War: An International History
By David S. PainterMoving beyond earlier controversies, this edited collection focuses on the interaction between geopolitics and threat perception, technology and strategy, ideology and social reconstruction, national economic reform and patterns of ...
-
Cold War: An International History
By Carole K. FinkThe second edition reflects the latest research and scholarship and offers additional information about the post-Cold War period, including the "new Cold War" with Russia.
-
The Cold War through Documents: A Global History
By Edward H. Judge, John W. LangdonThis comprehensive collection of carefully edited documents—speeches, treaties, statements, and articles—traces the rise and fall of the Cold War.
-
The Cold War in the Third World
By Robert J. McMahonThis collection explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World.
-
Cold War: An International History
By Carole K. FinkFDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis: From the Rise of Hitler to the End of World War II. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Overy, Richard. 1939: Countdown to War. New York: Viking, 2009.
-
The Cambridge History of the Cold War
By Odd Arne Westad, Melvyn P. LefflerThis volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War in the first comprehensive historical reexamination of the period.
-
A Global History of the Cold War, 1945-1991
By Philip JenkinsThis is an essential introduction for students studying Cold War, twentieth century or Global history.