The Cold War
ISBN13: 9780199237012ISBN10: 0199237018
Paperback, 368 pages
Jun 2011,
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368 pages;
6 maps, four figures;
8.5 x 5.4;
ISBN13: 978-0-19-923701-2ISBN10: 0-19-923701-8
Drawing on the latest archival evidence and scholarly research, prize-winning historian John Lamberton Harper provides a concise, briskly-written assessment of the Cold War.
Table of Contents
IntroductionDocumentary Traces
1. Russia and the West: Destined to Collide?
2. The End of Illusions, 1945-1946
3. The Consolidation of the Blocs, 1947-1949
4. The Globalization and Militarization of the Contest, 1949-1953
5. The Age of Brinkmanship, 1953-1963
6. The Struggle in the Third World, 1950-1968
7. The Rise and Decline of Detente, 1969-1977
8. To the Panic of '79
9. Stirrings of Change, 1980-1985
10. Putting an End to the Cold War, 1986-1990
Conclusion
Endnotes
Select Bibliography
Index
