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Uncertain Empire - American History and the Idea of the Cold War (Paperback)
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Uncertain Empire - American History and the Idea of the Cold War (Paperback)
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Historians have long understood that the notion of "the cold war"
is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict between
the United States and the Soviet Union was a war that fell
ambiguously short of war, an armed truce that produced considerable
bloodshed. Yet scholars in the rapidly expanding field of Cold War
studies have seldom paused to consider the conceptual and
chronological foundations of the idea of the Cold War itself. This
stands in contrast to the study of other historical epochs that are
governed by grand but ambivalent rubrics: the Renaissance, the
Scientific Revolution, or the Industrial Revolution. In Uncertain
Empire, a group of leading scholars takes up the challenge of
making sense of the idea of the Cold War and its application to the
writing of American history. They interrogate the concept from a
wide range of disciplinary vantage points; the scope of these
different positions illustrates the diversity of methods and
approaches in contemporary Cold War studies. Among the disciplines
on which the book draws are diplomatic history, the history of
science, literary criticism, cultural history, and the history of
religion. Animating the volume as a whole is a question about the
extent to which the Cold War was an American invention. Essays look
at the Cold War as in need of a rigorous re-centering, after a
decade in which historians have introduced expansive global and
transnational perspectives on the conflict; as a uniquely American
ideological project designed to legitimize the pursuit of an
ambitious geopolitical agenda; as a geopolitical and transnational
phenomenon; and other approaches. Uncertain Empire brings these
debates into focus, and offers students of the Cold War a new
framework for considering recent developments in the scholarship.
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