The cold war : a world history / Odd Arne Westad.

"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 W...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Westad, Odd Arne (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Basic Books, 2017.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Cold War. World politics > 1945-1989. Cold War > Influence. War > Influence. World politics. Ost-West-Konflikt. Weltpolitik. HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. HISTORY / World. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. 1945-1989
Physical Description:	710 pages ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

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.