The Cold War: A New History, Paperback

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marc DollingerMarc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal conse...

Retaining all the well-loved features, this book is now matched to the new AQA specification and covers AS and A Level content together. With a str...

Film emerged in pre-Revolutionary Russia to become the 'most important of all arts' for the new Bolshevik regime and its propaganda machine. The 19...

A new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 16: The Cold War and the Americas (1945-1981)The renowned IB Diploma History series, ...

Reducere. Description"The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy quickly established itself as a classic when it first appeared in 1981. This edition makes it even be...

This is the most comprehensive history to date of the Truman Administration's progressive embroilment in the cold war, and it presents a stunning n...

Reducere. This book addresses a central question about the Cold War that has never been adequately resolved. Why did the United States go to such lengths not...

Reducere. 170, 000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 - the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Australia's first immigration min...

Leading historians and political scientists explore the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Using...

DescriptionAccording to its Constitution, the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) was nothing less than the 'attainment by all peoples o...

In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast arra...

Reducere. In the early years of the Cold War, the United States mounted expansive public diplomacy programs in the Global South, including initiatives with t...

Reducere. The second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts ana...

Today, race seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. There still exists a general abhorrence about discriminating between people according to their...

Reducere. In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. ...

Reducere. In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide...

This new edition of An Introduction to Middle East Politics continues to provide an expansive survey of Middle East politics, thoroughly revised an...

Reducere. With the exception of a few iconic moments such as Rosa Parks's 1955 refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, we hear little about what bla...

In this startling, intensively researched book, bestselling historian Paul Kengor shines light on a deeply troubling aspect of American history: th...

Reducere. In 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hoped that a policy of appeasement would satisfy Adolf Hitler's territorial appetite and structured Bri...

Established in the 1940s, the Five Eyes intelligence network consists of Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. The allian...

Reducere. With 70 FREE-TO-DOWNLOAD high-resolution infographics to aid historical comprehension. Following on from the success of An Infographic History of G...

LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Lavender and Red recounts a fa...

Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power The year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black li...

Reducere. THE NEW BOOK from MATTHEW ROZELL in the best-selling 'THE THINGS OUR FATHERS SAW' World War II oral history series.In THE BULGE AND BEYOND, you wil...

Reducere. Description The American public's introduction to nuclear technology was manifested in destruction and death. With Hiroshima and the Cold War still...

Reducere. Long before a devastating earthquake hit in January 2010, Haiti was one of the most impoverished and oppressed countries in the world. However, in ...

Reducere. Military interventions on supposedly humanitarian grounds have become an established feature of the post-Cold War global order. Since September 11,...

Reducere. Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team--led by an obsessed retired F...

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity,...

Reducere. No person involved in so much history received so little attention as the late Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving U.S. senator. In "The Last Great...

Superpower relations and the Cold War 1941-91 Student Book is part of Oxford's brand new Edexcel GCSE History series. This textbook series provides...

Reducere. The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the hum...

Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispers...

Reducere. With a new preface by the author Controversial in nature, this book demonstrates that the United States did not need to use the atomic bomb against...

Reducere. Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civi...

Reducere. DescriptionWhile exceptionalism is not unique to America, the intensity of this conviction and its global ramifications are. This has led the US to...

Reducere. Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War. The two men embodied opposing strategies for winning the conflict. Ye...

Reducere. Description1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on...

Reducere. The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years o...

Reducere. The true story that inspired the feature film Bridge of Spies In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilo...

We are living in some of the most discouraging times in my lifetime, which has spanned some very bad periods; the Depression, World War II, the Kor...

Reducere. On the cold, dark night of March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa-el jaguar-and his band of marauders crossed the border and raided the ...

Reducere. The photos in this edition are black and white. Recognized as one of the best fighters of the 1990s, the Su-27 Flanker is a single-seat supersonic ...

Reducere. "This book has been long needed: a concise, complete and dispassionate survey of the Vietnam War.... Best of all, the no-nonsense approach answers ...

Reducere. Jeffrey T. Richelson reveals the history of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, from the events leading to its creation in 1974 to today. Defusing ...

A small group of scientists were doggedly working in the field of antiviral treatments when the AIDS epidemic struck. Faced with one of the grand c...

Reducere. The New York Times-bestselling history of the first half of the twentieth century--five decades that transformed America--from the author of Only Y...

Reducere. Out of the ashes of Imperial China arose two new contenders to lead a reformed nation; the Chinese Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang, and the Chine...

DescriptionIn this award-winning book, Philipp Ther provides the first comprehensive history of post-1989 Europe, offering a sweeping narrative fil...

Reducere. The definitive history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world The Cold War began on the perimeters of Europe, but it had its deepe...

In a brilliant new interpretation, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall reexamine the successes and failures of America's Cold War. This provocative...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dale C. CopelandOne of the most important questions of human existence is what drives nations to war--especially massive, s...

DescriptionThe gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition--but also recovery, reuni...

Architecture is a constant presence in the study of human interaction--acting as both the ground on which human social behavior is performed and a ...

Reducere. Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its...

Reducere. Told from the perspective of flashbacks in 2019, when all the Earth is convulsing and the United States of America is collapsing due either to Natu...

Reducere. DescriptionThrough dramatic incidents tells for the first time the full story of the development of Cold War naval intelligence from the end of WWI...

Reducere. The world into which India wakes is a nightmare decimated by a global recession, caused by the coronavirus pandemic originating in China and engulf...

Reducere. DescriptionThe eagerly awaited second volume of Paul Robeson Jr.'s acclaimed biography of his father, the legendary singer, actor, and social activ...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the Cold War gripped the world with fear of espionage and nuclear winter, everyday Wisconsinites found themselves embroiled in the st...

Reducere. What went wrong in Vietnam? Michael Lind casts new light on one of the most contentious episodes in American history in this controversial bestsell...

Reducere. On September 5, 1945, Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko severed ties with his embassy in Ottawa, Canada, reporting allegations to authorities of a ...

Reducere. History Lessons offers a lighthearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of wid...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jay FeldmanFrom Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America un...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jon HunnerA social history of New Mexico's "Atomic City" Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the commu...

The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a ...

Reducere. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States. More than one hundred fifty pavilions...

DescriptionOn the Home Front is the only comprehensive history of the Hanford Nuclear Site, America's most productive and wasteful plutonium manufa...

Reducere. 'The techniques of the original Cold War have been updated and adapted for a new enemy in a new century, but the political essence is the same. The...