The Cambridge history of American foreign relations / Warren I. Cohen, editor.
This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective. All of the major foreign policy issues, including the origins of the Soviet-American conflict; th...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
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Summary: | This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective. All of the major foreign policy issues, including the origins of the Soviet-American conflict; the extension of the confrontation to Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere on the periphery; wars in Korea and Vietnam; crises involving the Taiwan Straits, Berlin, and Cuba; the rise and fall of detente; imperial overreach; and the critical roles of Reagan and Gorbachev in the 1980s are carefully analyzed and clearly explained. |
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Physical Description: | 4 volumes : maps ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 0521382092 9780521382090 0521381851 9780521381857 0521382068 9780521382069 0521381932 9780521381932 9780511467219 0511467214 9780511467226 0511467222 9780511467233 0511467230 9780511467240 0511467249 |