Author: Odd Arne Westad
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: interventions, making, times, world, third, cold, war, global
Number of Pages: 498
Published: 2007-02-19
List price: $20.99
ISBN-10: 052170314X
ISBN-13: 9780521703147

The Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States indelibly shaped the world we live in today--especially international politics, economics, and military affairs. This volume shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the 20th century created the foundations for most of today’s key international conflicts, including the "war on terror." Odd Arne Westad examines the origins and course of Third World revolutions and the ideologies that drove the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. towards interventionism. He focuses on how these interventions gave rise to resentments and resista

Author: Odd Arne Westad
Publisher: Frank Cass
Keywords: cold, war, history, nobel, symposium, series, theory, approaches, interpretations, reviewing, cass
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0714681202
ISBN-13: 9780714681207

Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe. This volume takes stock of where these new materials have taken us in our understanding of what the cold war was about and how we should study it.

Author: Odd Arne Westad
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: war, cold, history, theory, approaches, reviewing, interpretations
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0714650722
ISBN-13: 9780714650722

Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from China, the former Soviet Union and Europe. This volume takes stock of where these new materials have taken us in our understanding of what the cold war was about and how we should study it.

Authors:J. M. Roberts, Odd Arne Westad,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: fifth, world, history, penguin, new
Number of Pages: 1264
Published: 2007-12-18
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0141030429
ISBN-13: 9780141030425

An extremely accessible narrative of the world’s history A book of extraordinary ambition, scholarship and accessibility, The New Penguin History of the World covers the history of our planet from our origins on the African savannah to the state of the world six years after September 11, 2001. Tracing the development of different civilizations through the ages, J. M. Roberts examines the periods of turbulence and change, the international shifts in order and power, and the conflicts, divisions, and advances that have shaped the way we live. A truly global and comprehensive chronicle of

Authors:Leffler Melvyn P., Westad Odd Arne,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: volume, origins, war, cold, history, cambridge
Number of Pages: 664
Published: 2010-04-30
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0521837197
ISBN-13: 9780521837194

This volume examines the origins, causes and early years of the Cold War. Leading scholars show how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic, and socio-political environment of the two world wars and the interwar period as well as examining how markets, ideas, and cultural interactions affected political discourse, diplomatic events, and strategic thinking. Chapters focus not only on the USA, the USSR, and Great Britain, but also on other critical regions such as Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and East Asia. They deal not only with the most influential statesmen of the e

Authors:Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Odd Arne Westad,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: eyewitness, accounts, documents, history, war, cold
Number of Pages: 712
Published: 2004-09-02
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0199272808
ISBN-13: 9780199272808

The Cold War contains a selection of official and unofficial documents which provide a truly multi-faceted account of the entire Cold War era. The experiences of the East Berlin housewife are placed alongside those of the South African student; the participation of political leaders from Europe and the Third World stand juxtaposed. Not only does this book put a human face on the conflict, but it draws emphasis to the variety of ways in which this conflict was experienced. The final selection of documents illustrates the global impact of the Cold War to the present day, and establishes links

Authors:Arne Sby Christensen, Arne Soby Christinsen,
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Keywords: migration, myth, studies, gothic, jordanes, history, cassiodorus
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2002-09
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 8772897104
ISBN-13: 9788772897103

A study in the myth of the origins and early history of the Goths as told in the Getica written by Jordanes in AD 551. Jordanes claimed they emigrated from the island of Scandza (Sweden) in 1490 BC, thus giving them a history of more than two thousand years. He found this narrative in Cassiodorus’s Gothic history, which is now lost. The present study demonstrates that Cassiodorus and Jordanes did not base their accounts on a living Gothic tradition of the past, as the Getica would have us believe. On the contrary, they got their information only from the Graeco-Roman literature. The Gree