Black Market, Cold War: Everyday Life in Berlin, 1946-1949

Black Market, Cold War: Everyday Life in Berlin, 1946-1949
ISBN-10
0521745179
ISBN-13
9780521745178
Category
History
Pages
374
Language
English
Published
2008-10-13
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Paul Steege

Description

This book explains how and why Berlin became the symbolic capital of the Cold War. Paul Steege anchors his account of this emerging global conflict in the terrain of a city literally shattered by World War II. By focusing on what happened 'on the ground' in Berlin, the book shows how ordinary people mattered for the development of a global Cold War that dominated world affairs for four decades and offers an interpretive framework with which to reevaluate international conflict in the present.

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