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The cold war : a world history /

"We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Westad, Odd Arne (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Cold War.
World politics > 1945-1989.
Cold War > Influence.
Cold War > History.
Ost-West-Konflikt.
Weltpolitik.
Table of Contents:
  • World making
  • Starting points
  • Tests of war
  • Europe's asymmetries
  • Reconstructions
  • New Asia
  • Korean tragedy
  • Eastern spheres
  • The making of the West
  • China's scourge
  • Breaking empires
  • Kennedy's contingencies
  • Encountering Vietnam
  • The Cold War and Latin America
  • The age of Brezhnev
  • Nixon in Beijing
  • The Cold War and India
  • Middle East maelstroms
  • Defeating détente
  • European portents
  • Gorbachev
  • Global transformations
  • European realities
  • The world the Cold War made.