Title:
The Oxford handbook of the Cold War / edited by Richard H. Immerman and Petra Goedde.
Author:
Immerman, Richard H., book editor, writer of introduction.
Goedde, Petra, 1964- book editor, writer of introduction.
Publication Information:
Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2016.
©2016
Call Number:
D843 .O94 2016
Abstract:
34 essays by a team of leading scholars offering a broad reassessment of the Cold War, calling into question orthodox ways of ordering the chronology of the period and presenting new insights into the global dimension of the conflict.
ISBN:
9780198779391
Series:
[Oxford handbooks]
Oxford handbooks.
Physical Description:
xvi, 660 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Conceptual frameworks. -- Historicizing the Cold War / Ideology, culture, and the Cold War / Economics and the Cold War / Geopolitics and the Cold War / The Cold War and the imperialism of nation-states / Regional cold wars/cold war crises. -- Soviet-American relations through the Cold War / China and the Cold War / Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1990 / Western Europe / Eastern Europe / Latin America / South Asia / The Cold War in Southeast Asia / The Cold War and the Middle East / Africa / Japan and the Cold War : an overview / Waging the Cold War. -- Cold War strategies/power and culture -- East : sources of Soviet conduct reconsidered / Power and culture in the West / The military / The nuclear revolution : a product of the Cold War, or something more? / International institutions / Trade, aid, and economic warfare / Cold War intelligence history / Challenging the Cold War paradigm. -- Internal challenges to the Cold War : oppositional movements East and West / Locating the transnational in the Cold War / Decolonization and the Cold War / Human rights / Race and the Cold War / Gender and women's rights in the Cold War / The religious Cold War / The international environmental movement and the Cold War / Globalization and the Cold War / The end of the Cold War. -- The end of the Cold War
