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The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Very Short Introductions
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Loot Price R215
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Cold War
dominated international life from the end of World War II to the
fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin?
Why did it move from its initial origins in Postwar Europe to
encompass virtually every corner of the globe? And why, after
lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly?
Robert McMahon considers these questions and more, as well as
looking at the legacy of the Cold War and its impact on
international relations today. The Cold War: A Very Short
Introduction is a truly international history, not just of the
Soviet-American struggle at its heart, but also of the waves of
decolonization, revolutionary nationalism, and state formation that
swept the non-Western world in the wake of World War II. McMahon
places the 'Hot Wars' that cost millions of lives in Korea,
Vietnam, and elsewhere within the larger framework of global
superpower competition. He shows how the United States and the
Soviet Union both became empires over the course of the Cold War,
and argues that perceived security needs and fears shaped U.S. and
Soviet decisions from the beginning-far more, in fact, than did
their economic and territorial ambitions. He unpacks how these
needs and fears were conditioned by the divergent cultures,
ideologies, and historical experiences of the two principal
contestants and their allies. Covering the years 1945-1990, this
second edition uses recent scholarship and newly available
documents to offer a fuller analysis of the Vietnam War, the
changing global politics of the 1970s, and the end of the Cold War.
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