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Author : Kevin J. Fernlund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015045681700
The first comprehensive survey of the Cold War's enormous impact on the environment, society, politics, culture, and economy of the American West.
Author : Simon Wood
Publisher : Hodder Gibson
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1471852504
Author : James Fitzgerald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Arms race
ISBN : 0170087859
Author : Walter LaFeber
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015041011274
Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this text focuses on US/Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. It identifies major policy-makers and explores major crises in the post-1945 period. The author also looks at how the Cold War was shaped by domestic events in both the USA and Soviet Union. Material new to this edition includes: a rewritten post-1989 final chapter; the rewriting of the events in the 1950s, the Lyndon Johnson presidency and the Reagan presidential years; and a stronger focus on Soviet/Russian developments.
Author : Nicholas J. Cull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:851341821
Author : Walter LaFeber
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 0394343913
Author : Reginald Whitaker,Steve Hewitt
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121541945
Canada and the Cold War is a fascinating historical overview of a key period in Canadian history. The focus is on how Canada and Canadians responded to the Soviet Union -- and to America's demands on its northern neighbour.
Author : Mark Kramer,Vit Smetana
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739181867
The Cold War began in Europe in the mid-1940s and ended there in 1989. Notions of a “global Cold War” are useful in describing the wide impact and scope of the East-West divide after World War II, but first and foremost the Cold War was about the standoff in Europe. The Soviet Union established a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe in the mid-1940s that later became institutionalized in the Warsaw Pact, an organization that was offset by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) led by the United States. The fundamental division of Europe persisted for forty years, coming to an end only when Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe dissolved. Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945–1989, edited by Mark Kramer and Vít Smetana, consists of cutting-edge essays by distinguished experts who discuss the Cold War in Europe from beginning to end, with a particular focus on the countries that were behind the iron curtain. The contributors take account of structural conditions that helped generate the Cold War schism in Europe, but they also ascribe agency to local actors as well as to the superpowers. The chapters dealing with the end of the Cold War in Europe explain not only why it ended but also why the events leading to that outcome occurred almost entirely peacefully.
Author : Frédéric Bozo
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857452887
Exploring the visions of the end of the Cold War that have been put forth since its inception until its actual ending, this volume brings to the fore the reflections, programmes, and strategies that were intended to call into question the bipolar system and replace it with alternative approaches or concepts. These visions were associated not only with prominent individuals, organized groups and civil societies, but were also connected to specific historical processes or events. They ranged from actual, thoroughly conceived programmes, to more blurred, utopian aspirations -- or simply the belief that the Cold War had already, in effect, come to an end. Such visions reveal much about the contexts in which they were developed and shed light on crucial moments and phases of the Cold War.
Author : Nicholas J. Cull
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521142830
Published at a time when the U.S. government's public diplomacy is in crisis, this book provides an exhaustive account of how it used to be done. The United States Information Agency was created in 1953 to "tell America's story to the world" and, by engaging with the world through international information, broadcasting, culture and exchange programs, became an essential element of American foreign policy during the Cold War. Based on newly declassified archives and more than 100 interviews with veterans of public diplomacy, from the Truman administration to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nicholas J. Cull relates both the achievements and the endemic flaws of American public diplomacy in this period. Major topics include the process by which the Truman and Eisenhower administrations built a massive overseas propaganda operation; the struggle of the Voice of America radio to base its output on journalistic truth; the challenge of presenting Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, and Watergate to the world; and the climactic confrontation with the Soviet Union in the 1980s. This study offers remarkable and new insights into the Cold War era.
Author : Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136931604
The World of the American West is an innovative collection of original essays that brings the world of the American West to life, and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing region. Twenty scholars incorporate the freshest research in the field to take the history of the American West out of its timeworn "Cowboys and Indians" stereotype right up into the major issues being discussed today, from water rights to the presence of the defense industry. Other topics covered in this heavily illustrated, highly accessible volume include the effects of leisure and tourism, western women, politics and politicians, Native Americans in the twentieth century, and of course, oil. With insight both informative and unexpected, The World of the American West offers perspectives on the latest developments affecting the modern American West, providing essential reading for all scholars and students of the field so that they may better understand the vibrant history of this globally significant, ever-evolving region of North America.
Author : Jon Hunner
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806185774
In 1922, the teenage son of a Jewish immigrant ventured from Manhattan to New Mexico for his health. It was the first of many trips to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a western retreat where J. Robert Oppenheimer would eventually hold pathbreaking discussions with world-renowned scientists about atomic physics. Oppenheimer came to feel at home in the American West, and while extensive studies have been made of the man, this is the first book to explicitly link him with the region. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West explores how the West influenced Oppenheimer as a scientist and as a person—and the role he played in influencing it. Jon Hunner’s concise account of Oppenheimer’s life and the emergence of an Atomic West distills a vast literature for students and general readers. In this brisk, engaging biography, the author recounts how Oppenheimer helped locate the atomic weapons research lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico, and helped establish leading physics departments at the University of California–Berkeley and Caltech. By taking part in moving atomic physics west of the Mississippi, Oppenheimer bolstered the establishment of research labs, uranium mines, nuclear reactors, and more, bringing talented people—and billions of dollars in federal contracts—to the region. Interwoven into this atomic tale are insights into the physicist’s troubled growing-up years, his marriage and family life, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Oppenheimer’s eventual downfall. After the first atomic bomb burst over the New Mexican desert in 1945 and as the Cold War developed, the American myth of the Wild West expanded to encompass atomic sheriffs saving the world for democracy—even as powerful opponents began questioning Oppenheimer’s place in that story. Against the backdrop of the physicist’s life twining with the region’s history, Hunner explores the promise and peril of the Atomic Age.
Author : Michael L. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030112643
Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries.
Author : United States. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Nuclear disarmament
ISBN : MINN:31951D00830233U
Author : Robert J. McMahon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198859543
Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international history of the Cold War.