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Book:Name: Westad, Odd Arne - The Cold War - Westad, Odd Arne
Format: epub
Size: 1.76 MB
Description:Title: Westad, Odd Arne - The Cold War
Author: Westad, Odd Arne
Language: English
Year: 2017
Subjects: History, Nonfiction
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9780465054930
Total pages: N/A
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From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world
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 Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with early roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world.
In The Cold War, Westad offers a new perspective on a century when great power rivalry and ideological battle transformed every corner of our globe. From Soweto to Hollywood, Hanoi, and Hamburg, young men and women felt they were fighting for the future of the world. The Cold War may have begun on the perimeters of Europe, but it had its deepest reverberations in Asia,...
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