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The Cambridge History of the Cold War

The Cambridge History of the Cold War
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Odd Arne Westad, David C. Engerman, Charles S. Maier, Melvyn P. Leffler, Vladimir O. Pechatnov, Anne Deighton, Hans-Peter Schwarz, William I. Hitchcock, Norman Naimark, Svetozar Rajak, Niu Jun, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu, William Stueck, Robert J. McMahon, Vojtech Mastny, Csaba Békés, Shu Guang Zhang, David Holloway, Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, Laura McEnaney, David Priestland, Mark Philip Bradley, David S. Painter, John Lewis Gaddis, Robert Jervis, Richard N. Cooper, James G. Hershberg, William Burr, David Alan Rosenberg, Frank Costigliola, William Taubman, Svetlana Savranskaya, Frédéric Bozo, N. Piers Ludlow, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Anthony Kemp-Welch, Ennio Di Nolfo, Michael E. Latham, Fredrik Logevall, Douglas Little, Piero Gleijeses, Sergey Radchenko, Robert D. Schulzinger, Francis J. Gavin, Christopher Andrew, Nicholas J. Cull, Jeremi Suri, Marc Trachtenberg, Wilfried Loth, Jan-Werner Müller, Giovanni Arrighi, Silvio Pons, Nancy Mitchell, Vladislav M. Zubok, Amin Saikal, Olav Njølstad, Chen Jian, Michael Schaller, John H. Coatsworth, Chris Saunders, Sue Onslow, Archie Brown, Beth A. Fischer, John W. Young, Jacques Lévesque, Helga Haftendorn, Alex Pravda, David Reynolds, Matthew Evangelista, J. R. McNeill, Rosemary Foot, Matthew Connelly, Emily S. Rosenberg, Adam Roberts, G. John Ikenberry
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  • Date Published: March 2010
  • availability: Replaced by 9781107602328
  • format: Multiple copy pack
  • isbn: 9780521839389

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  • The Cambridge History of the Cold War is a comprehensive, international history of the conflict that dominated world politics in the twentieth century. The three-volume series, written by leading international experts in the field, elucidates how the Cold War evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and socio-political environment of the two World Wars and the interwar era, and explains the global dynamics of the Cold War international system. It emphasises how the Cold War bequeathed conditions, challenges and conflicts that shape international affairs today. With discussions of demography and consumption, women and youth, science and technology, ethnicity and race, the volumes encompass the social, intellectual and economic history of the twentieth century, shedding new light on the evolution of the Cold War. Through its various geographical and national angles, the series signifies a transformation of the field from a national – primarily American – to a broader international approach.

    • A three-volume global history of the Cold War
    • Emphasises social, intellectual, economic and geostrategic trends as well as focusing on personalities, politics and human agency
    • Contributions by leading Cold War scholars from around the world
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    Reviews & endorsements

    Review of the hardback set: 'There has never been a Cold War history like it; everything about it is monumental … In total, the volumes represent a successful interconnected attempt at describing the Cold War in full.' Jost Dülffer, H-Soz-u-Kult

    Review of the hardback set: 'The Cambridge History of the Cold War (CHCW) marks a coming of age for Cold War studies. This multi-volume compilation provides a synthesis of the 'New Cold War History'. It is a signal moment in the evolution of the field.' Mike Sewell, H-Diplo

    'As a source of essential information about the Cold War, this Cambridge History is going to be hard to beat.' The Times Literary Supplement

    Review of the set: '… if [I] could recommend just three books to a reader with no prior knowledge of the Cold War - the average undergraduate, say - it would likely be this series. The breadth and depth of coverage, in disciplinary and geographical terms, is unparalleled.' David Milne, H-Diplo

    'We have a waited a long time for a standard and usable reference on the Cold War that provides a solid foundation for the beginning student or general reader, while offering avenues for further research for the more advanced scholar. And now - and for some time to come - we have it.' Tom Nichols, H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews (h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables)

    'The three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War, edited by two leading historians of the Cold War, Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, is … the fruit of a grand project comprising seventy-three contributions by a vast team of international historians hailing from eighteen countries, and weighs in at some 2000 pages. It is a laudable achievement and goes a long way towards doing what pundits talk about a great deal but rarely do, that is, to globalize Cold War history. On offer here is a rich diversity of viewpoints and interpretations, and the three volumes hang together well in overarching theme and scope … a landmark achievement, and will be indispensable for historians of the period for many years to come.' Paul Betts, German History

    'Among the volumes' greatest achievements two stand out: the first is the sheer range of contributors and topics which trace this long period in world history from its beginnings in the Second World War to the dismantling of the Soviet's Empire in the 1990s. The second is the overall balanced and sustained objectivity in a field in which it is all too easy to lessen one's historical work by taking sides.' Contemporary Review

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    Product details

    • Date Published: March 2010
    • format: Multiple copy pack
    • isbn: 9780521839389
    • length: 1976 pages
    • dimensions: 235 x 157 x 106 mm
    • weight: 3.63kg
    • availability: Replaced by 9781107602328
  • Table of Contents

    Volume 1:
    1. The Cold War and the international history of the twentieth century
    2. Ideology and the origins of the Cold War, 1917–1962
    3. The world economy and the Cold War in the mid-twentieth century
    4. The emergence of an American grand strategy, 1945–1952
    5. The Soviet Union and the world, 1944–1953
    6. Britain and the Cold War
    7. The division of Germany (1945–1949)
    8. The Marshall Plan and the creation of the west
    9. The Sovietization of eastern Europe, 1944–1953
    10. The Cold War in the Balkans: from the Greek Civil War to Soviet-Yugoslav normalization
    11. The birth of the People's Republic of China and the road to the Korean War
    12. Japan, the United States, and the Cold War, 1945–1960
    13. The Korean War
    14. US national security policy from Eisenhower to Kennedy
    15. Soviet foreign policy, 1953–1962
    16. East-Central Europe from Stalin's death to the aftermath of the 1956 revolts
    17. The Sino-Soviet Alliance and the Cold War in Asia, 1954–1962
    18. Nuclear weapons and the escalation of the Cold War, 1945–1962
    19. Culture and the Cold War in Europe
    20. Cold War mobilization and domestic politics: the United States
    21. Cold War mobilisation and domestic politics: the Soviet Union, 1945–1962
    22. Decolonization, the global south, and the Cold War, 1919–1962
    23. Oil, resources, and the Cold War, 1945–1962. Volume 2:
    1. Grand strategies in the Cold War
    2. Identity and the Cold War
    3. Economic aspects of the Cold War, 1962–1975
    4. The Cuban Missile Crisis
    5. Nuclear competition in an era of stalemate, 1963–1975
    6. US foreign policy from Kennedy to Johnson
    7. Soviet foreign policy, 1962–1975
    8. France, 'Gaulism', and the Cold War
    9. European integration and the Cold War
    10. Détente in Europe, 1962–1975
    11. Eastern Europe: Stalinism to solidarity
    12. Cold War and the transformation of the Mediterranean, 1960–1975
    13. The Cold War in the Third World, 1963–1975
    14. The Indochina Wars and the Cold War, 1945–1975
    15. The Cold War in the Middle East from the Suez Crisis to the Camp David Accords
    16. Cuba and the Cold War, 1959–1980
    17. The Sino-Soviet split
    18. Détente in the Nixon-Ford years, 1969–1976
    19. Nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation during the Cold War
    20. Intelligence in the Cold War
    21. Reading, viewing and tuning-in to the Cold War
    22. Counter-cultures: the rebellions against the Cold War order, 1965–1975
    23. The structure of great power politics, 1963–1975
    24. The Cold War and the social and economic history of the twentieth century. Volume 3:
    1. The Cold War and the intellectual history of the late twentieth century
    2. The world economy and the Cold War, 1970–1990
    3. The rise and fall of Eurocommunism
    4. The Cold War and Jimmy Carter
    5. Soviet foreign policy from Détente to Gorbachev, 1975–1985
    6. Islamism, the Iranian Revolution, and the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
    7. The collapse of superpower détente, 1975–1980
    8. Japan and the Cold War from 1960 to 1991
    9. China and the Cold War after Mao
    10. The Cold War in Central America, 1975–1991
    11. The Cold War and Southern Africa, 1976–1990
    12. The Gorbachev revolution and the end of the Cold War
    13. US foreign policy from Reagan to Bush
    14. Western Europe and the end of the Cold War, 1979–1989
    15. The East European revolutions of 1989
    16. The unification of Germany, 1985–1991
    17. The collapse of the Soviet Union, 1990–1991
    18. Science, technology and the Cold War
    19. Transnational organizations and the Cold War
    20. The Biosphere and the Cold War
    21. The Cold War and human rights
    22. The Cold War in the longue durée: global migration, public health, and population control
    23. Consumer capitalism and the end of the Cold War
    24. An 'incredibly swift transition': reflections on the end of the Cold War
    25. The restructuring of the international system after the Cold War.

  • Editors

    Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia

    Odd Arne Westad, London School of Economics and Political Science

    Contributors

    Odd Arne Westad, David C. Engerman, Charles S. Maier, Melvyn P. Leffler, Vladimir O. Pechatnov, Anne Deighton, Hans-Peter Schwarz, William I. Hitchcock, Norman Naimark, Svetozar Rajak, Niu Jun, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu, William Stueck, Robert J. McMahon, Vojtech Mastny, Csaba Békés, Shu Guang Zhang, David Holloway, Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, Laura McEnaney, David Priestland, Mark Philip Bradley, David S. Painter, John Lewis Gaddis, Robert Jervis, Richard N. Cooper, James G. Hershberg, William Burr, David Alan Rosenberg, Frank Costigliola, William Taubman, Svetlana Savranskaya, Frédéric Bozo, N. Piers Ludlow, Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Anthony Kemp-Welch, Ennio Di Nolfo, Michael E. Latham, Fredrik Logevall, Douglas Little, Piero Gleijeses, Sergey Radchenko, Robert D. Schulzinger, Francis J. Gavin, Christopher Andrew, Nicholas J. Cull, Jeremi Suri, Marc Trachtenberg, Wilfried Loth, Jan-Werner Müller, Giovanni Arrighi, Silvio Pons, Nancy Mitchell, Vladislav M. Zubok, Amin Saikal, Olav Njølstad, Chen Jian, Michael Schaller, John H. Coatsworth, Chris Saunders, Sue Onslow, Archie Brown, Beth A. Fischer, John W. Young, Jacques Lévesque, Helga Haftendorn, Alex Pravda, David Reynolds, Matthew Evangelista, J. R. McNeill, Rosemary Foot, Matthew Connelly, Emily S. Rosenberg, Adam Roberts, G. John Ikenberry

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