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Odd Arne Westad - The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times - 9780521703147 - V9780521703147
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The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

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Description for The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times Paperback. Prize-winning study of the global conflict waged during the Cold War and its legacy today. Num Pages: 496 pages, 15 b/w illus. 10 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; HBLW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 808. Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. 495 pages, 15 b/w illus. 10 maps. Prize-winning study of the global conflict waged during the Cold War and its legacy today. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; HBLW; JPS. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight: 810.
The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
807g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521703147
SKU
V9780521703147
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Ref
99-1

About Odd Arne Westad
Odd Arne Westad is Director of the Cold War Studies Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His recent publications include Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946–1950 (2003) and The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts (2003).

Reviews for The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
'This is a genuinely 'international' history … few genuine research monographs are so wide ranging chronologically and geographically, while also trying to absorb insights from sociology and social anthropology … taken as a whole no historian has dealt with the links between the Cold War so fully, so broadly and so thoughtfully as Westad in this new account … a ... Read more

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