We Now Know Rethinking Cold War History

Name: We Now Know Rethinking Cold War History
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ISBN: 9780198780717

ISBN-10: 0198780710

ISBN-13: 9780198780717

Edition: 1997 (Reprint)

Authors: John Lewis Gaddis

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The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective, one reflecting Soviet, East European, and Chinese as well as American and West European viewpoints. In a major departure from his earlier scholarship, John Lewis Gaddis, the pre-eminent American authority on the United States and the Cold War, has written a comprehensive comparative history of that conflict from its origins through to its most dangerous moment, the Cuban missile crisis. We Now Know is packed with new information drawn from previously unavailable sources; it also reflects the findings of a new generation of Cold War historians. It contains…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/9/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

John Lewis Gaddis is Robert A. Lovett Professor of History and Political Science at Yale University.




Dividing the World



Cold War Empires: Europe



Cold War Empires: Asia



Nuclear Weapons and the Early Cold War



The German Question



The Third World



Economics, Ideology, and Alliance Solidarity



Nuclear Weapons and the Escalation of the Cold War



The Cuban Missile Crisis



The New Cold War History: First Impressions


Notes


Bibliography


Index