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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Main Author : Westad Odd Arne (Auteur)
Format : Book
Language : anglais
Title statement : The Cold War : a world history / Odd Arne Westad
Published : New York : Basic Books , 2017
Physical Description : 1 volume (710 pages)
Content : 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. Approaches and acknowledgments. Notes - Index
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SALLE B (RDC) Histoire 909.023 WES Empruntable Available