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Hanoi's War
An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam
Häftad, 2016
461 kr
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While most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanization of the conflict, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen examines the international context in which North Vietnamese leaders pursued the war and American intervention ended. This riveting narrative takes the …
Deng Xiaoping's Long War
The Military Conflict Between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991
Häftad, 2018
402 kr
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The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined urban and agricultural infrastructure, leveled three Vietnamese cities, …
Gold, Dollars, and Power
The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971
Häftad, 2007
548 kr
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This book describes how four U.S. administrations struggled with the legacy of Bretton Woods.How are we to understand the politics of international monetary relations since the end of World War II? Exploiting recently declassified documents from both the United States and Europe and employing …
France Restored
Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954
Häftad, 1998
519 kr
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Historians of the Cold War, argues the author of this book, have too often overlooked the part that European nations played in shaping the post-World War II international system. In particular, he contends that France has been given short shrift. Drawing on a wide array of evidence from French, …
China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975
Av Qiang Zhai
Häftad, 2000
519 kr
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In the quarter century after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against France and the USA. Drawing on newly released Chinese archival sources, memoirs and diaries, and documentary collections, this book offers a comprehensive …
Modernization As Ideology
American Social Science and "Nation Building" in the Kennedy Era
Häftad, 2000
519 kr
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Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America's protracted struggle to contain communism in the …
Imagining Vietnam and America
The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950
Häftad, 2000
519 kr
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This study of the encounter between Vietnam and the United States from 1919 to 1950 reconceptualizes the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and the place of postcolonial Vietnam in the history of the 20th century. Among the first Americans granted a visa to undertake research in Vietnam since the …
Dealing with the Devil
East Germany, Détente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973
Häftad, 2001
519 kr
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Using new archival sources including previously secret documents of the East German secret police and Communist Party, M.E. Sarotte goes behind the scenes of Cold War Germany during the era of detente, as East and West tried negotiation instead of confrontation to settle their differences. In …
Mao's China and the Cold War
Av Jian Chen
Häftad, 2001
519 kr
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This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist revolution in 1949 set the stage, Chen says. The …
Grand Designs and Visions of Unity
The Atlantic Powers and the Reorganization of Western Europe, 1955-1963
Häftad, 2002
636 kr
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In the late 1950s, against the unfolding backdrop of the Cold War, American and European leaders began working to reshape Western Europe. They sought to adapt the region to a changing world in which European empires were rapidly disintegrating, Soviet influence was spreading, and the United States …
Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy
Häftad, 2003
548 kr
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Since the sudden collapse of the communist system in Eastern Europe in 1989, scholars have tried to explain why the Soviet Union stood by and watched as its empire crumbled. The recent release of extensive archive documentation in Moscow and the appearance of an increasing number of Soviet …
Bitter Peace
Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement
Häftad, 2002
475 kr
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Demonstrating the centrality of diplomacy in the Vietnam War, Pierre Asselin traces the secret negotiations that led up to the Paris Agreement of 1973, which ended America's involvement but failed to bring peace to Vietnam. Because the two sides signed the agreement under duress, the peace it …
Containing Arab Nationalism
The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East
Av Salim Yaqub
Häftad, 2004
548 kr
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Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, the United States pledged to give increased economic and military aid to receptive Middle Eastern countries and to protect - with US armed forces if necessary - the territorial integrity and political independence of these nations from the threat of ""international …
Cold War Holidays
American Tourism in France
Häftad, 2004
504 kr
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Moving beyond traditional state-centered conceptions of foreign relations, Christopher Endy approaches the Cold War-era relationship between France and the United States from the original perspective of tourism. Focusing on American travel in France after World War II, Cold War Holidays shows how …
U.S. Intervention in British Guiana
A Cold War Story
Häftad, 2005
402 kr
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The United States installs a leader in a South American country in the first published account of the massive U.S. covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969. Stephen G. Rabe uncovers a Cold War story of imperialism, gender bias, and racism. When the South American colony, now …
Failed Empire
The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
Häftad, 2009
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471 kr
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This book features the Cold War from the Soviet side. In this widely praised book, Vladislav Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and …
Nation Building in South Korea
Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy
Häftad, 2009
475 kr
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South Koreans tailor American ideas about economic development and democracy. This ambitious and innovative study examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast array of new American and Korean sources, Gregg Brazinsky explains why South Korea was one of the …
Sino-Soviet Alliance
An International History
Inbunden, 2014
558 kr
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In 1950 the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation between the Soviet bloc and the PRC. While this treaty was intended as a break with the colonial past, Austin Jersild argues …
Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold War
Av Tanya Harmer
Häftad, 2014
475 kr
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Fidel Castro described Salvador Allende's democratic election as president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution. Yet celebrations were short lived. In Washington, the Nixon administration vowed to destroy Allende's left-wing …
Germany's Cold War
The Global Campaign to Isolate East Germany, 1949-1969
Häftad, 2014
548 kr
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Using newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain, William Glenn Gray explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state following World War II. Unwilling to accept the division of their country, West German leaders regarded …
Confronting America
The Cold War Between the United States and the Communists in France and Italy
Häftad, 2014
563 kr
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Throughout the Cold War, the United States encountered unexpected challenges from Italy and France, two countries with the strongest, and determinedly most anti-American, Communist Parties in Western Europe. Based primarily on new evidence from communist archives in France and Italy, as well as …
Visions of Freedom
Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
Häftad, 2016
461 kr
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During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers were stationed, …
Empowering Revolution
America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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As the most populous country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest anticommunist dissident movement, Poland is crucial in understanding the end of the Cold War. During the 1980s, both the United States and the Soviet Union vied for influence over Poland’s politically tumultuous …
Sino-Soviet Alliance
An International History
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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In 1950 the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation between the Soviet bloc and the PRC. While this treaty was intended as a break with the colonial past, Austin Jersild argues …
Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy
China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Sulmaan Wasif Khan tells the story of the PRC's response to that crisis and, in doing so, brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters: Chinese diplomats appalled by sky burials, …
Innocent Weapons
The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War
Häftad, 2017
402 kr
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In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war. In this provocative book, Margaret Peacock offers an original account of how Soviet and American leaders used emotionally charged images of …
Armageddon Insurance
Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945–1991
Inbunden, 2019
1236 kr
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The dangerous, decades-long arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War begged a fundamental question: how did these superpowers actually plan to survive a nuclear strike? In Armageddon Insurance, the first historical account of Soviet civil defense and a pioneering …
Armageddon Insurance
Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945–1991
Häftad, 2019
475 kr
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The dangerous, decades-long arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War begged a fundamental question: how did these superpowers actually plan to survive a nuclear strike? In Armageddon Insurance, the first historical account of Soviet civil defense and a pioneering …
Shadow Cold War
The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World
Häftad, 2018
417 kr
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The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership of …
Soviet Soft Power in Poland
Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943-1957
Häftad, 2019
461 kr
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Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach tried to use "soft power" in order to …
