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The Global Cold War
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Author : Odd Arne Westad
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-24
The Global Cold War written by Odd Arne Westad and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-24 with History categories.
The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua, it provides a truly global perspective on the Cold War. And by exploring both the development of interventionist ideologies and the revolutionary movements that confronted interventions, the book links the past with the present in ways that no other major work on the Cold War era has succeeded in doing.
The Cold War
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Author : Odd Arne Westad
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-08-31
The Cold War written by Odd Arne Westad and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-31 with History categories.
'Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition, supra-nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly scholarship and trenchant analysis make The Cold War a book ofresounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines, TLS, Books of the Year 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. There was no part of the world where East and West did not, ultimately, demand a blind and absolute allegiance, and nowhere into which the West and East did not reach. Countries as remote from each other as Korea, Angola and Cuba were defined by their allegiances. Almost all civil wars became proxy conflicts for the superpowers. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely. Arne Westad's remarkable new book is the first to have the distance from these events and the ambition to create a convincing, powerful narrative of the Cold War. The book is genuinely global in its reach and captures the dramas and agonies of a period always overshadowed by the horror of nuclear war and which, for millions of people, was not 'cold' at all: a time of relentless violence, squandered opportunities and moral failure. 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.
The Global Cold War
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Author : Professor of International History Odd Arne Westad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14
The Global Cold War written by Professor of International History Odd Arne Westad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with HISTORY categories.
Prize-winning study of the global conflict waged during the Cold War and its legacy today.
An Analysis Of Odd Arne Westad S The Global Cold War
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Author : Patrick Glenn
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-07-05
An Analysis Of Odd Arne Westad S The Global Cold War written by Patrick Glenn and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Education categories.
Westad’s seminal 2005 work shifts the focus of Cold War studies from Europe to the post-World War II interventions by both the Soviet Union and the United States in the affairs of developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
The Global Cold War
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Author : Patrick Glenn
language : en
Publisher: Macat Library
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Global Cold War written by Patrick Glenn and has been published by Macat Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Cold War categories.
Westad's seminal 2005 work shifts the focus of Cold War studies from Europe to the post-World War II interventions by both the Soviet Union and the United States in the affairs of developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Using new archival sources that became available after the fall of communism, Westad explains how these interventions destabilized the Third World, laying the foundations for contemporary problems and conflicts in the Global South. The Global Cold War is the first example of the 'New' Cold War History school of thought, which links all the international arenas where the struggle took place and helps make sense of conflicts still raging today. Book jacket.
An Analysis Of Odd Arne Westad S The Global Cold War
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Author : Patrick Glenn
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-07-05
An Analysis Of Odd Arne Westad S The Global Cold War written by Patrick Glenn and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents that determined its course took place in the northern hemisphere, specifically in the face-off between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in Europe. In this view, the Berlin Wall mattered more than the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and the Soviet intervention in Hungary was vastly more significant than Soviet intervention in Korea. It was only the fine balance of power in the northern theatre that redirected the attentions of the USA and the USSR elsewhere, and resulted in outbreaks of proxy warfare elsewhere in the globe - in Korea, in Vietnam and in Africa. Odd Arne Westad's triumph is to look at the history of these times through the other end of the telescope – to reconceptualize the Cold War as something that fundamentally happened in the Third World, not the First. The thesis he presents in The Global Cold War is highly creative. It upends much conventional wisdom and points out that the determining factor in the struggle was not geopolitics, but ideology – an ideology, moreover, that was heavily flavoured by elements of colonialist thinking that ought to have been alien to the mindsets of two avowedly anti-colonial superpowers. Westad's work is a fine example of the creative thinking skill of coming up with new connections and fresh solutions; it also never shies away from generating new hypotheses or redefining issues in order to see them in new ways.
An Analysis Of Odd Arne Westad S The Global Cold War
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Author : Patrick Glen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
An Analysis Of Odd Arne Westad S The Global Cold War written by Patrick Glen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
The Global Cold War
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Author : Odd Arne Westad
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-02-19
The Global Cold War written by Odd Arne Westad and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-19 with History categories.
The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua, it provides a truly global perspective on the Cold War. And by exploring both the development of interventionist ideologies and the revolutionary movements that confronted interventions, the book links the past with the present in ways that no other major work on the Cold War era has succeeded in doing.
Science And Technology In The Global Cold War
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 19??
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The Cold War In The Third World
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Author : Robert J. McMahon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-13
The Cold War In The Third World written by Robert J. McMahon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-13 with History categories.
This collection explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World. Featuring original essays by twelve leading scholars, it examines the influence of Third World actors on the course of the Cold War.