The Cold War In American History And Politics

Author : Campbell Craig,Fredrik Logevall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674247345

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America’s Cold War by Campbell Craig,Fredrik Logevall Pdf

“A creative, carefully researched, and incisive analysis of U.S. strategy during the long struggle against the Soviet Union.” —Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy “Craig and Logevall remind us that American foreign policy is decided as much by domestic pressures as external threats. America’s Cold War is history at its provocative best.” —Mark Atwood Lawrence, author of The Vietnam War The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II. America prevailed, but only after fifty years of grim international struggle, costly wars in Korea and Vietnam, trillions of dollars in military spending, and decades of nuclear showdowns. Was all of that necessary? In this new edition of their landmark history, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall engage with recent scholarship on the late Cold War, including the Reagan and Bush administrations and the collapse of the Soviet regime, and expand their discussion of the nuclear revolution and origins of the Vietnam War. Yet they maintain their original argument: that America’s response to a very real Soviet threat gave rise to a military and political system in Washington that is addicted to insecurity and the endless pursuit of enemies to destroy. America’s Cold War speaks vividly to debates about forever wars and threat inflation at the center of American politics today.

Author : David Krugler,David Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1878802372

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The Cold War in American History and Politics by David Krugler,David Tucker Pdf

Author : Ralph B. Levering
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118848272

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The Cold War by Ralph B. Levering Pdf

Now available in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History offers an authoritative and accessible introduction to the history and enduring legacy of the Cold War. Thoroughly updated in light of new scholarship, including revised sections on President Nixon's policies in Vietnam and President Reagan's approach to U.S.-Soviet relations Features six all new “counterparts” sections that juxtapose important historical figures to illustrate the contrasting viewpoints that characterized the Cold War Argues that the success of Western capitalism during the Cold War laid the groundwork for the economic globalization and political democratization that have defined the 21st century Includes extended coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear age thus far

Author : John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 023112239X

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The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 by John Lewis Gaddis Pdf

This book moves beyond the focus on economic considerations that was central to the work of New Left historians, examining the many other forces--domestic politics, bureaucratic inertia, quirks of personality, and perceptions of Soviet intentions--that influenced key decision makers in Washington.

Author : Shelton Stromquist
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Anti-communist movements
ISBN : 9780252074691

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Labor's Cold War by Shelton Stromquist Pdf

How the Cold War affected local-level union politics

Author : Lee Edwards,Elizabeth Edwards Spalding
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781621575412

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A Brief History of the Cold War by Lee Edwards,Elizabeth Edwards Spalding Pdf

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Author : Ann Maire Kordas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317321361

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The Politics of Childhood in Cold War America by Ann Maire Kordas Pdf

This study examines how childhood and adolescence were shaped by – and contributed to – Cold War politics in America.

Author : Margaret Peacock
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469618579

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Innocent Weapons by Margaret Peacock Pdf

Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War

Author : Charlotte Brooks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226193731

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Between Mao and McCarthy by Charlotte Brooks Pdf

During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. Considered potentially sympathetic to communism, their communities attracted substantial public and government scrutiny, particularly in San Francisco and New York. Between Mao and McCarthy looks at the divergent ways that Chinese Americans in these two cities balanced domestic and international pressures during the tense Cold War era. On both coasts, Chinese Americans sought to gain political power and defend their civil rights, yet only the San Franciscans succeeded. Forging multiracial coalitions and encouraging voting and moderate activism, they avoided the deep divisions and factionalism that consumed their counterparts in New York. Drawing on extensive research in both Chinese- and English-language sources, Charlotte Brooks uncovers the complex, diverse, and surprisingly vibrant politics of an ethnic group trying to find its voice and flex its political muscle in Cold War America.

Author : Robert W. Cherny,William Issel,Kieran Walsh Taylor
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813534038

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American Labor and the Cold War by Robert W. Cherny,William Issel,Kieran Walsh Taylor Pdf

The American labor movement seemed poised on the threshold of unparalleled success at the beginning of the post-World War II era. Fourteen million strong in 1946, unions represented thirty five percent of non-agricultural workers. Why then did the gains made between the 1930s and the end of the war produce so few results by the 1960s? This collection addresses the history of labor in the postwar years by exploring the impact of the global contest between the United States and the Soviet Union on American workers and labor unions. The essays focus on the actual behavior of Americans in their diverse workplaces and communities during the Cold War. Where previous scholarship on labor and the Cold War has overemphasized the importance of the Communist Party, the automobile industry, and Hollywood, this book focuses on politically moderate, conservative workers and union leaders, the medium-sized cities that housed the majority of the population, and the Roman Catholic Church. These are all original essays that draw upon extensive archival research and some upon oral history sources.

Author : Richard Saull
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 0714682268

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Rethinking Theory and History in the Cold War by Richard Saull Pdf

"Rethinking Theory and History in the Cold War focuses on what we mean by 'politics' and 'international relations' and how such assumptions have come to determine our understanding of the Cold War. Using an historical-materialist method, the author criticizes conventional conceptions of international politics that tend to focus on the agency of and relations among states, and offers an alternative historical sociology of the Cold War through an analysis of the relationship between formal political authority and socio-economic production. Seen from this perspective, the state the modern conceptions of politics can be seen as products of a capitalist modernity, in which politics is based on the separation of the spheres of politics in the state and economics in civil society."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Allen Hunter
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781566395625

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Rethinking the Cold War by Allen Hunter Pdf

The end of the Cold War should have been an occasion to reassess its origins, history, significance, and consequences. Yet most commentators have restated positions already developed during the Cold War. They have taken the break-up of the Soviet Union, the shift toward capitalism and electoral politics in Eastern Europe and countries formerly in the USSR as evidence of a moral and political victory for the United States that needs no further elaboration. This collection of essays offers a more complex and nuanced analysis of Cold War history. It challenges the prevailing perspective, which editor Allen Hunter terms "vindicationism." Writing from different disciplinary and conceptual vantage points, the contributors to the collection invite a rethinking of what the Cold War was, how fully it defined the decades after World War II, what forces sustained it, and what forces led to its demise. By exploring a wide range of central themes of the era, Rethinking the Cold War widens the discussion of the Cold War's place in post-war history and intellectual life.

Author : Andrew L. Johns,Mitchell B. Lerner
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813175744

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The Cold War at Home and Abroad by Andrew L. Johns,Mitchell B. Lerner Pdf

From President Truman's use of a domestic propaganda agency to Ronald Reagan's handling of the Soviet Union during his 1984 reelection campaign, the American political system has consistently exerted a profound effect on the country's foreign policies. Americans may cling to the belief that "politics stops at the water's edge," but the reality is that parochial political interests often play a critical role in shaping the nation's interactions with the outside world. In The Cold War at Home and Abroad: Domestic Politics and US Foreign Policy since 1945, editors Andrew L. Johns and Mitchell B. Lerner bring together eleven essays that reflect the growing methodological diversity that has transformed the field of diplomatic history over the past twenty years. The contributors examine a spectrum of diverse domestic factors ranging from traditional issues like elections and Congressional influence to less frequently studied factors like the role of religion and regionalism, and trace their influence on the history of US foreign relations since 1945. In doing so, they highlight influences and ideas that expand our understanding of the history of American foreign relations, and provide guidance and direction for both contemporary observers and those who shape the United States' role in the world. This expansive volume contains many lessons for politicians, policy makers, and engaged citizens as they struggle to implement a cohesive international strategy in the face of hyper-partisanship at home and uncertainty abroad.

Author : Campbell Craig,Fredrik Logevall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674035539

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America’s Cold War by Campbell Craig,Fredrik Logevall Pdf

The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II. It ended in victory for the United States, yet it was a costly triumph, claiming trillions of dollars in defense spending and the lives of nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers. Apocalyptic anti-communism sharply limited the range of acceptable political debate, while American actions overseas led to the death of millions of innocent civilians and destabilized dozens of nations that posed no threat to the United States. In a brilliant new interpretation, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall reexamine the successes and failures of America’s Cold War. The United States dealt effectively with the threats of Soviet predominance in Europe and of nuclear war in the early years of the conflict. But in engineering this policy, American leaders successfully paved the way for domestic actors and institutions with a vested interest in the struggle’s continuation. Long after the U.S.S.R. had been effectively contained, Washington continued to wage a virulent Cold War that entailed a massive arms buildup, wars in Korea and Vietnam, the support of repressive regimes and counterinsurgencies, and a pronounced militarization of American political culture. American foreign policy after 1945 was never simply a response to communist power or a crusade contrived solely by domestic interests. It was always an amalgamation of both. This provocative book lays bare the emergence of a political tradition in Washington that feeds on external dangers, real or imagined, a mindset that inflames U.S. foreign policy to this day.

Author : Marc Trachtenberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400842490

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The Cold War and After by Marc Trachtenberg Pdf

A new way of looking at international relations from a leading expert in the field What makes for war or for a stable international system? Are there general principles that should govern foreign policy? In The Cold War and After, Marc Trachtenberg, a leading historian of international relations, explores how historical work can throw light on these questions. The essays in this book deal with specific problems—with such matters as nuclear strategy and U.S.-European relations. But Trachtenberg's main goal is to show how in practice a certain type of scholarly work can be done. He demonstrates how, in studying international politics, the conceptual and empirical sides of the analysis can be made to connect with each other, and how historical, theoretical, and even policy issues can be tied together in an intellectually respectable way. These essays address a wide variety of topics, from theoretical and policy issues, such as the question of preventive war and the problem of international order, to more historical subjects—for example, American policy on Eastern Europe in 1945 and Franco-American relations during the Nixon-Pompidou period. But in each case the aim is to show how a theoretical perspective can be brought to bear on the analysis of historical issues, and how historical analysis can shed light on basic conceptual problems.