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  • The Cold War

    An International History

    by David Painter ...
    Series series The Making of the Contemporary World
    The Cold War dominated international relations for forty-five years. It shaped the foreign policies of the United States and the Soviet Union and deeply affected their societies, domestic situations and their government institutions. Hardly any part of the world escaped its influence.David Painter provides a compact and analytical study that examines the origins, course, and end of the Cold War. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    The Cold War

    by David Painter ...
    Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 45 min

    The Cold War dominated international relations for forty-five years. It shaped the foreign policies of the United States and the Soviet Union and deeply affected their societies, domestic situations and their government institutions. Hardly any part of the world escaped its influence. David Painter provides a compact and analytical study that examines the origins, course, and end of the Cold War. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Cold War

    A World History

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    A “big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent” (New York Review of Books) history of the Cold WarWe think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad argues that the war must be understood as a global confrontation, with roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Strategies of Containment

    A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War

    by John Lewis Gaddis ...
    When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of George ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Global Cold War

    Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Transatlantic Century

    Europe and America, 1890–2010

    by Mary Nolan ...
    Series Book 46 - New Approaches to European History
    This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy, Mary Nolan charts the rise of American influence in Eastern and Western Europe, its mid-twentieth century triumph and its gradual erosion since the 1970s. She reconstructs the circuits of exchange along which ideas, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cold War

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert J. McMahon ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why did it move from its initial origins in Postwar Europe to encompass virtually every corner of the globe? And why, after lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly? Robert McMahon ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Sword and the Dollar

    Imperialism, Revolution, and the Arms Race

    by Michael Parenti ...
    To many, the foreign policy directives of the United States seem bewildering and sometimes inharmonious with its domestic political values. Why does the U.S. seem to support foreign dictators? Why has it invested so many of its resources in stockpiling nuclear arms? Why doesn't the U.S. act as a force for peace throughout the world? In this probing, provocative analysis, Michael Parenti reveals ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Since 1945

    by T. Vadney ...
    THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF GLOBAL CHANGE FROM 1945 TO THE PRESENT DAY The world since 1945 has witnessed fundamental changes, notably the increasing influence of the West - particularly the USA - in a variety of spheres, the emergence and collapse of the USSR, the end of colonial empire in Asia and Africa and the escalation of wars and other conflicts in the Third World. In this incisive survey T. E. ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • The World Since 1945

    An International History

    by Mark Gilbert, Professor P. M. H. Bell ...
    A masterly synthesis of the history of the contemporary world, The World Since 1945 offers the ideal introduction to the events of the period between the end of the Second World War and the present day. P. M. H. Bell and Mark Gilbert balance a clear narrative with in-depth analysis to guide the reader through the aftermath of the Second World War, the Cold War, decolonization, Détente and the Arab ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The Triumph of Improvisation

    Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War

    by James Graham Wilson ...
    In The Triumph of Improvisation**, James Graham Wilson takes a long view of the end of the Cold War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 to Operation Desert Storm in January 1991.** Drawing on deep archival research and recently declassified papers, Wilson argues that adaptation, improvisation, and engagement by individuals in positions of power ended the specter of a nuclear ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Devil We Knew

    Americans and the Cold War

    by H. W. Brands ...
    In the late 1950s, Washington was driven by its fear of communist subversion: it saw the hand of Kremlin behind developments at home and across the globe. The FBI was obsessed with the threat posed by American communist party--yet party membership had sunk so low, writes H.W. Brands, that it could have fit "inside a high-school gymnasium," and it was so heavily infiltrated that J. Edgar Hoover ... Read more

    $15.19 USD