Cold wars and proxy conflicts Books
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Fateful Triangle
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£27.00
The University of Alabama Press Standing Watch
Book SynopsisThe first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War. Featuring interviews from seventeen veteran submariners, Standing Watch offers the perspective of the submariners themselves - lending them a voice and paying homage to their service.Trade ReviewReaders will be amazed by the interesting and engaging description of the dangerous and uncertain nature of submarine service. Leung reminds us that someone always stands the watch protecting our nation, its global interests and our democratic values. Standing Watch left me wanting to learn more and enhanced my appreciation for the men and women in today's submarine force."" - Regina T. Akers, historian at the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, DC""As a career US Cold War submariner with a huge submarine library, I feel comfortable in saying that Standing Watch is the first book to my knowledge to examine the perceptions of the effect of the Cold War on junior US Submarine Force personnel."" - Alfred S. McLaren, author of Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Adventure’s Beginning Chapter 2. Underway Chapter 3. A Unique Culture Chapter 4. Fighting the War Chapter 5. Foreigner Chapter 6. Looking Back Epilogue: Parting Legacies Appendix A: Biographical Information Appendix B: US Submarine Losses (Cold War) Appendix C: Common US Navy Rates and Ranks Notes Bibliography Index
£23.36
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Ronald Reagan Decisions of Greatness
Book SynopsisOffers new perspectives on Ronald Reagan's primary accomplishment as president - persuading the Soviets to reduce their nuclear arsenals and end the Cold War. The authors examine the decisions Reagan made during his presidency that made his success possible and review Reagan's critical negotiations with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
£21.21
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Ronald Reagan Decisions of Greatness
Book SynopsisRonald Reagan's Cold War strategy, well established in his first year in office, did not change: to make absolutely sure in the minds of the Soviets that they too would be destroyed in a nuclear war. This book offers new perspectives on Ronald Reagan's primary accomplishment as president: persuading the Soviets to reduce their nuclear arsenals and end the Cold War.
£15.26
Duke University Press The East Is Black
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The East Is Black deepens studies on transnational political activism and knowledge travels. Well organized and accessible, this book will work well in upper-division undergraduate and graduate seminars on African American studies, media studies, and U.S. Cold War history." -- Cindy I-Fen Cheng * Journal of American History *"As it stands, Robeson Taj Frazier has written a monumentally successful monograph that is close to flawless in assessing other horizons and limits of Cold War China for Black radicals. Frazier has helped to raise the bar for future scholars assessing what C. L.R. James once called the "rise and fall" of world revolution." -- Bill V. Mullen * Black Scholar *"The East is Black is a brilliant work that explores how the People’s Republic of China (prc) inspired the political imaginations of African American radicals during the Cold War.... Overall, The East is Black is a delight to read. Frazier writes in a fluid and compelling manner... [the book] should attract a broad readership among academics and students who are interested in race and radicalism in the United States and Asia." -- Judy Tzu-Chun Wu * Journal of American-East Asian Relations *"Frazier’s The East is Black is a deeply nuanced and well-researched book that enriches the literature on twentieth century black internationalism.... Through careful and in-depth analysis, Frazier has written an important study, which will enhance undergraduate and graduate course syllabi on a range of topics including Race and Ethnicity, Transnationalism, and the modern African Diaspora." -- Keisha N. Blain * American Studies *"The East is Black is a compelling account of transnational interaction between American black political radicals and China from the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 until the 1970s. Robeson Taj Frazier’s book is a valuable addition to an exploding historiography on transnational contacts between individuals and groups separated by territorial borders but united by commonalities beyond the nation-state." -- Pete Millwood * History *"It is abundantly clear that Frazier’s impressive, granular attention to detail is, in part, what opens up the admirably novel analytical spaces—and affective registers—his study occupies. The East Is Black calmly forgoes the nostalgia for the romance of anti-colonial struggle that pervades much scholarship on Afro-Asian solidarity from the last fifteen years. Instead, Frazier supplements this worthwhile tendency with a commitment to lingering with the fragments, the frustrations, of a struggle that wasn’t to be—a project he enacts expertly, in a manner that bears repeating." -- Ajay Kumar Batra * Amerasia Journal *"The East is Black helps expand the geographic and cultural boundaries of scholarly understandings of the black radical imagination. Frazier’s detailed analysis of the dynamic terrain of Third Worldism, anti-imperialism, and black radicalism insightfully illustrates how African Americans engaged with a fluid global color line in pursuit of a transnational solidarity against white racial capitalism. The study is well worth reading for scholars of African American politics and intellectual thought, but should be equally rewarding for students of modern global history and the Cold War." -- Joseph Parrott * H-Afro-Am, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: March of the Volunteers 1 Part I. The 1950s: Losing China, Winning China 22 1. Ruminations on Eastern Passage 37 2. A Passport Ain't Worth a Cent 72 Part II. The 1960s: The East Is Red and Black 108 3. Soul Brothers and Soul Sisters of the East 117 4. Maoism and the Sinification of Black Political Struggle 159 Coda. The 1970s: Rapprochement and the Decline of China's World Revolution 193 Postscript: Weaving through San Huan Lu 213 Glossary 221 Notes 225 Bibliography 277 Index 303
£20.69
University of Hawai'i Press Unpredictable Agents
Book SynopsisTwelve Japanese scholars of American studies tell their stories of how they encountered ""America"" and came to dedicate their careers to studying it. Together, these essays illustrate the complex positionalities, fluid identities, ambivalent embrace, and unpredictable agency of Japan's Americanists.
£51.00
University of Missouri Press Truman Francos Spain and the Cold War
Book SynopsisWell-deployed primary sources and brisk writing by Wayne H. Bowen make this an excellent framework for understanding the evolution of US policy toward Spain, and thus how a nation facing a global threat develops strategic relationships over time.Trade ReviewA balanced, behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of these two nations to find common ground."" - Larry W. Blomstedt, Galveston College, author of Truman, Congress, and Korea
£52.20
University of Missouri Press The Foundation of the CIA
Book SynopsisProvides new material and a fresh perspective on American National Intelligence practice, focusing on the first fifty years of the twentieth century, when the United States took on the responsibilities of a global superpower during the first years of the Cold War.Trade ReviewRichard Schroeder’s compelling new book reveals how an under-appreciated U.S. President, Harry Truman, put together an intelligence framework that remained in place for decades and contributed to winning the Cold War. It is a story well told and highly recommended!" — noted intelligence historian H. Keith Melton"An important and long overdue contribution to America’s national security history. The Foundation of the CIA properly honors the members of President Truman’s “Missouri Gang,” whose collective legacy was a responsible intelligence Agency that has served Democratic and Republican Presidents alike for seventy years." — Robert Wallace, author with H. Keith Meltonof Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda"Schroeder knows his history and has aggressively explored primary and secondary sources. Anyone with an interest in early U.S. intelligence history or the Roosevelt/Truman era especially will appreciate this book. Perhaps its greatest contribution is its extensive treatment of the first Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter." — David M. Barrett, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University; author of The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to KennedyTable of Contents The Foundation of the CIA Foreword Introduction Chapter One: American National Intelligence: From the Revolutionary Army to World War II Chapter Two: America in World War II and the Beginnings of Central Intelligence Chapter Three: William J. Donovan and the Office of Strategic Services Chapter Four: Harry Truman, Sidney Souers, and the Next Steps Chapter Five: The CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, and the Cold War Endnotes Bibliography
£22.46
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Korean War 195053 174 MenatArms
Book SynopsisA concise illustrated study of the first military conflict of the Cold War. At 4am on Sunday 25 June 1950, powerful North Korean forces invaded South Korea, advancing down the Uijongbu Corridor towards the Southern Capital of Seoul. South Korean troops resisted bravely, but were crushed by overwhelming Northern superiority. Later that day, the United Nations Security Council condemned the aggression, and on 7 July appointed US General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to command UN forces which would be sent to save South Korea. Nigel Thomas and Peter Abbott explore the history of this conflict, which pitted UN forces against the People's Republic of China in a struggle that resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties. The text is accompanied by black and white photographs, maps and diagrams, along with colour plates from artist Mike Chappell depicting uniforms and equipment of soldiers of North and South Korea, People's Republic of China, the United States and other UN forces.Table of ContentsThe Course of the War · North Korea · South Korea · United States of America · British Commonwealth · Other United Nations Contingents · People's Republic of China · The Plates
£11.69
Berghahn Books Between Prague Spring and French May
Book SynopsisAbandoning the usual Cold Waroriented narrative of postwar European protest and opposition movements, this volume offers an innovative, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive perspective on two decades of protest and social upheaval in postwar Europe. It examines the mutual influences and interactions among dissenters in Western Europe, the Warsaw Pact countries, and the nonaligned European countries, and shows how ideological and political developments in the East and West were interconnected through official state or party channels as well as a variety of private and clandestine contacts. Focusing on issues arising from the cross-cultural transfer of ideas, the adjustments to institutional and political frameworks, and the role of the media in staging protest, the volume examines the romanticized attitude of Western activists to violent liberation movements in the Third World and the idolization of imprisoned RAF members as martyrs among left-wing circles across Western Europe.Trade Review “The well-footnoted chapters are based on extensive research. There is an extensive bibliography and a 25-page chronology of events in 1968.” · Choice “This collection of thought-provoking essays on the protest movements in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s—from Britain, Germany, France and the Nordic countries in the west to Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in the east—shows the advantages of a multidisciplinary, transnational approach to the study of mass protest. At the end of the book is a handy chronology of important events and a comprehensive bibliography. The well-referenced Introduction provides useful background information on the political atmosphere in both Western and Eastern Europe in the period.” · European Legacy “This volume offers many new insights into the complex history of 1968 on both sides of the Iron Curtain, bringing awareness to developments in smaller countries such as Yugoslavia, Denmark, and Norway that are usually omitted in existing literature. These essays should assist scholars studying Europe in the postwar period to transcend reductionist national narratives. The seventh volume of the Protest, Culture, and Society series is another welcome contribution to a much-needed and more comprehensive view of historical and cultural change in Europe around the mystical year of 1968.” · Journal of Cold War Studies “A wonderful work of collaborative and comparative history, truly international in scope. The authors teach at universities in nine different European nations, plus the United States and Japan. (…) The book will be of immense value to a wide range of specialists and can also be profitably read by anyone who lived through and wants to understand better the excitement, pain, trauma, and occasional triumphs of 1968, looking backward to 1960 and ahead to 1980 to place that extraordinary year in perspective.“ · David L. Schalk, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, Emeritus Vassar College “This volume is a very good contribution to historical studies, and for the study of transnational protest movements. Its strength derives from the variety of cases presented and from its focus on sub- or nonstate actors in a good selection of European countries.” · Memory Studies “…[uses] a wide range of disciplines, including linguistic analysis of the transmission of protest language… The vast array of different approaches is at times dizzying, but contributes to a remarkable survey of the social reality of the period. These [essays] also confront one of the more unpleasant aspects of the movements of the era – their relationship to armed struggle… The scholars included here confront this history in all its messy and sometimes unpleasant detail. The result is a bold reappraisal of the sometimes naïve, sometimes dangerous, but always courageous confrontation of one generation with the world it was meant to inherit.” · Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte “Too often the protests of the 1960s are narrowly confined to the events of one year – 1968 – or to the same familiar set of countries. This welcome book offers broader vistas that includes European countries, big and small, from both sides of the Iron Curtain. In doing so, the authors allow us to transcend worn national narratives and reflect more broadly on how a whole continent was changed by the promise of global change and revolution. This book is thus an important addition for anyone seriously studying Europe in the postwar period.” ·James C. Kennedy, Author of Building New Babylon: The Netherlands in the 1960s, Professor of Dutch History since the Middle Ages, University of AmsterdamTable of Contents List of Figures Introduction Martin Klimke, Jacco Pekelder and Joachim Scharloth PART I: POLITICS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST Chapter 1. ‘Out of Apathy’: Genealogies and Meanings of the British ‘New Left’ in a Transnational Context, 1956-1962 Holger Nehring Chapter 2. Early Voices of Dissent: Czechoslovakian Student Opposition at the Beginning of the 1960s Zdenek Nebrensky Chapter 3. National Ways to Socialism? - The Left and the Nation in Denmark and Sweden Thomas Jorgensen Chapter 4. The Parti communiste français in May 1968: The Impossible Revolution? Maud Bracke Chapter 5. 1968 in Yugoslavia – Student Revolt between East and West Boris Kanzleiter PART II: PROTEST WITHOUT BORDERS: RECONTEXTUALIZATION OF PROTEST CULTURES Chapter 6. “Johnson War Criminal!” - The Vietnam Movements in the Netherlands Rimko van der Maar Chapter 7. Shifting Boundaries: Transnational Identification and Disassociation in Protest Language Andreas Rothenhöfer Chapter 8. A Tale of Two Communes: The Private and the Political in late 1960s Berlin Timothy Brown Chapter 9. “Indiani Metropolitani” and “Stadtindianer”: Representing Autonomy in Italy and West-Germany Sebastian Hauman PART III: THE MEDIA-STAGING OF PROTEST Chapter 10. Mediatisation of Provo: From a Local Movement to a European Phenomenon Niek Pas Chapter 11. The Revolution Will Be Televised: The Global 1968 Revolts on Norwegian Television News Rolf Werenskjold Chapter 12. Performing Disapproval towards the Soviets: Nicolae Ceausescu’s Speech on 21 August 1968 in Romanian Media Corina Petrescu PART IV: DISCOURSES OF LIBERATION AND VIOLENCE Chapter 13. Guerrillas and Grassroots - Danish Solidarity with the 3rd World, 1960-79 Karen Steller Bjerregaard Chapter 14. Sympathizing Subcultures?: The Milieus of West German Terrorism Sebastian Gehrig Chapter 15. The RAF Solidarity Movement from a European Perspective Jacco Pekelder PART V: EPILOGUE Chapter 16. The European 1960/70s and the World: The Case of Régis Debray Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey PART VI: CHRONOLOGY: THE EUROPEAN 1968 Rolf Werenskjold Select Bibliography
£80.75
Berghahn Books Cold War Cultures Perspectives on Eastern and
Book SynopsisThe Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term "Cold War Culture" is often used in a broad sense to describe media influences & social practices...Trade Review “Overall, then, this is an important contribution to European Cold War history which will hopefully find its way onto reading lists for courses on post-1945 European history.” · War in History “Cold War Cultures is an ambitious collection of essays by an interdisciplinary group of American and European scholars – including historians, sociologists, and cultural theorists… [that] makes a compelling case for why individual countries in Europe should be included in the historiography of the conflict.” · Canadian-American Slavic Studies “…this is a book for researchers, but I believe those who are interested in European culture from the 1950s to 1980s would appreciate these scholarly pieces as vivid explanations of its background. The editors have done a great job in combining such varied topics into a single volume.” · European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire “The collection is… invaluable in informing English-language readers how Czechs, Romanians, Russians, Swedes, Austrians, Italians, Slovenes, and (more than any other nationality) Germans experienced the travail of a divided continent.” · Journal of Cold War Studies “This is a very interesting edited collection of essays that makes a valuable and indeed a pathbreaking contribution to the study of an important emerging area… [It] offers a very original take on the [existing] literature in that it seeks to broaden the debate to ask questions about European Cold War Cultures, as opposed to the North American ones that have dominated the literature hitherto.” · Mark Pittaway, Open University, UKTable of Contents List of Illustrations European Cold War Culture(s)? An Introduction Annette Vowinckel, Marcus M. Payk, Thomas Lindenberger Part I: Mediating the Cold War: Radio, Film, Television, and Literature Chapter 1. East European Cold War Culture(s)? Alterities, Commonalities, and Reflections Marsha Siefert Chapter 2.“We Started the Cold War”: A Hidden Message behind Stalin’s Attack on Anna Akhmatova Olga Yurievna Voronina Chapter 3. Radio Reform in the 1980s: RIAS and DT-64 Respond to Private Radio Edward Larkey Chapter 4. The Enemy Within. (De-)Dramatizing the Cold War in U.S. and West German Spy TV of the 1960s Marcus M. Payk Chapter 5. Cold War Television: Olga Korbut and the Munich Olympics of 1972 Annette Vowinckel Part II: Constructing Identities: Representations of the “Self” Chapter 6. Catholic Piety in the Early Cold War Years or: How the Virgin Mary Protected the West from Communism Monique Scheer Chapter 7. The Road to Socialism Paved With Good Intentions. Automobile Culture in the Soviet Union, the GDR and Romania During Détente. Luminita Gatejel Chapter 8. Advertising, Emotions, and “Hidden Persuaders”: The Making of Cold-War Consumer Culture in Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s Stefan Schwarzkopf Chapter 9. Survivalism in the Welfare Cocoon: The Culture of Civil Defense in Cold War Sweden Marie Cronqvist Part III: Crossing the Border: Interactions with the “Other” Chapter 10. The Peace and the War Camps. The Dichotomous Cold War Culture in Czechoslovakia: 1948-1960 Roman Krakovsky Chapter 11. Artistic Style, Canonization, and Identity Politics in Cold War Germany, 1947-1960 Joes Segal Chapter 12. What Does Democracy Look Like? (And Why Would Anyone Want to Buy It?): Third World Demands and West German Responses at 1960s World Youth Festivals Quinn Slobodian Chapter 13. Drawing the East-West Border: Narratives of Modernity and Identity in the Julian Region (1947-1954) Sabina Mihelj Part IV: The Legacies of the Cold War: Remembrance and Historiography Chapter 14. A fifties revival? Cold War culture in re-unified Germany Andrew Beattie Chapter 15. The Mikson Case: War Crimes Memory, Estonian Identity. Reconstructions and the Transnational Politics of Justice Valur Ingimundarson Chapter 16. The First Cold War Memorial in Berlin. A Short Inquiry into Europe, the Cold War, and Memory Cultures Petra Henzler Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
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Berghahn Books Samizdat Tamizdat and Beyond Transnational Media
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West during the Cold War as well as the much broader circulation of cultural products that was instigated and sustained by these practices.Trade Review “The volume displays in exemplary fashion the entire spectrum of this dissident world; it would be great to see such well structured edited volumes like this one more often.” • Archiv für Sozialgeschichte “[The editors] present a wide-ranging array of case studies of unofficial and oppositional media across the socialist bloc, which enrich the growing literature on samizdat while providing one of the first detailed accounts of tamizdat. Many chapters reconstruct the complex networks via which these media circulated to East European domestic audiences and, more important, to the transnational community that could offer theoretical and practical support for dissent outside the host countries. They evoke an almost infinite variety in the type and scale of such media circulation.” • Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History “These case studies will be invaluable to researchers seeking innovative approaches to the study of dissent, or those teaching courses on the subject who want to add something new and thought provoking to their syllabi.” • Russian Journal of Communication "The volume is enlightening and innovative in many respects and deserves attention beyond the circles of regional specialists. Challenging received notions about the self-enclosed nature of communication and culture in Communistruled Central and Eastern Europe, contributions to the volume highlight the importance of transnational information flows within the region and across the Cold War divide." • European Journal of Communication “Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond offers a long-awaited rethinking of dissent at the grassroots level. Looking primarily but not exclusively to the Eastern Bloc, this volume skillfully stretches our understanding of samizdat to incorporate visual art, music, video, and the web. The editors bring together seemingly disparate samizdat ‘texts’ by placing them within the larger context of transnationalism, gender, and mass media. In so doing, they remind us that dissent is, first and foremost, a creative human endeavor, one that not only has a history but also a future.” • Paulina Bren, Vassar College “The information and insights contained in this volume fill the gap in our knowledge about the vitality, diversity, and ongoing relevance of samizdat/tamizdat and alternative media not only in the post-Communist states represented here, but in emerging democracies in other regions of the world, e.g. the Middle East and Asia.” • Michael Long, Baylor UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Section I: Producing and Circulating Samizdat/Tamizdat Before 1989 Chapter 1. Ardis Facsimile and Reprint Editions: Giving Back Russian Literature Ann Komaromi Chapter 2. The Baltic Connection: Transnational Networks of Resistance after 1976 Fredrik Lars Stöcker Chapter 3. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty as the ‘Echo Chamber’ of Tamizdat Friederike Kind-Kovács Chapter 4. Contact Beyond Borders and Historical Problems: Kultura, Russian Emigration and the Polish Opposition Karolina Ziolo-Puzuk Section II: Diffusing Non-Conformist Ideas Through Samizdat/Tamizdat Before 1989 Chapter 5. “Free Conversations in an Occupied Country:” Cultural Transfer, Social Networking and Political Dissent in Romanian Tamizdat Cristina Petrescu Chapter 6. The Danger of Over-Interpreting Dissident Writing in the West: Communist Terror in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1968 Muriel Blaive Chapter 7. Renaissance or Reconstruction? Intellectual Transfer of Civil Society Discourses Between Eastern and Western Europe Agnes Arndt Section III: Transforming Modes and Practices of Alternative Culture Chapter 8. The Bards of Magnitizdat: An Aesthetic Political History of Russian Underground Recordings Brian A. Horne Chapter 9. Writing about apparently non-existent art: the tamizdat journal A-Ja and Russian unofficial arts in the 1970s-1980s Valentina Parisi Chapter 10. “Video Knows No Borders”: Samizdat Television and the Unofficial Public Sphere in “Normalized” Czechoslovakia Alice Lovejoy Section IV: Moving From Samizdat/Tamizdat To Alternative Media Today Chapter 11. Postprintium? Digital literary samizdat on the Russian Internet Henrike Schmidt Chapter 12. Independent Media, Transnational Borders, and Networks of Resistance: Collaborative Art Radio between Belgrade (Radio B92) and Vienna (ORF) Daniel Gilfillan Chapter 13. “From Wallpapers to Blogs”: Samizdat and Internet in China Martin Hala Chapter 14. Reflections on the Revolutions in Europe: Lessons for the Middle East and the Arab Spring Barbara J. Falk Afterword Jacques Rupnik Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors
£96.30
Oneworld Publications Agents of Influence
Book Synopsis'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of RevengeTrade Review'A racy and readable account of a range of Soviet intelligence operations carried out during the Cold War.' -- Telegraph‘An enjoyable read’ -- The Times'Entertaining.' -- Tablet'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' -- Tom Bower, author of Revenge'From honey traps to hit jobs, the plot twists like The Third Man in post-war Vienna. Mark Hollingsworth ably traces the history of active measures from Lenin’s Chekists to the present day. Deeply researched, fluently written and insightful, this book is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the threat Putin’s Russia poses to us here in Britain.' -- Edward Lucas, author of Deception'A valuable account of an important and highly topical subject – Russian intelligence operations against the West… A must-read for anyone wishing to understand the origins of the malign mindset and obsession of Vladmir Putin and his acolytes.' -- Christopher Steele, former MI6 officer in Russia, 1990-93‘Gripping and insightful… We meet an intriguing list of characters through which the Soviets aimed to gain an advantage over the West. Motivated by ideology, or in other cases by money, they are an exotic list whose stories are explored in detail and give the book a feeling of a real-life spy novel… A good read with fascinating insights, Hollingsworth’s book is to be recommended.’ -- Kevan Jones MP, PoliticsHome
£18.00
Pointed Leaf Press Bomboozled How the US Government Misled Itself
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£33.25
Cambridge University Press Chinas European Headquarters
Book SynopsisThe first study to analyse the central role that Switzerland played in China's presence in Europe in the Cold War. Using extensive research in Western and Chinese archives, Ariane Knüsel offers new perspectives on the formulation and implementation of China's foreign policy, foreign trade policy, and intelligence activities.
£28.49
Cambridge University Press After Hedging
Book SynopsisThis Element introduces a preference-for-change model to explain the policy variations of states during the order transition. It suggests that policymakers will perceive a potential change in the international order through a cost-benefit prism.This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. International order transition and state policy choice; 2. Preference-for-change model: a neoclassical realist framework; 3. Singapore: hedging to cope with uncertainties; 4. Australia: balancing to resist change; 5. Thailand: bandwagoning to seek profit; 6. New Zealand: buck-passing to avoid risks; Conclusion; References.
£17.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World
Book SynopsisThis volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Soviet Union as well as East European states undertook significant efforts to influence cultural life in the newly independent, postcolonial world.The different forms of influence are the subject of this book. The contributions are grouped around four topic headings. Networks and Institutions looks at the various ways Western-style theatre became institutionalized in the decolonial world, especially Africa. Cultural Diplomacy focuses on the activities of the Soviet Union in India in the late 1950s and 1960s in the very different arenas of book publishing and the circus. Artists and Agency explores how West African filmmakers (Ousmane Sembène and Abderrahmane Sissako) and European authors (Brecht and Ibsen) were harnessed for different kinds of Cold War strategies. Finally, Cultures of Things investigates how everyday objects such aTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Aesthetic World-Systems: Mythologies of Modernism and Realism Part 1: Networks and Institutions 3. Cold War Mobilities: Eastern European Theatre Going Global 4. Theatre for Influence: American Cultural and Philanthropic Missions in West Africa During the Early Cold War Part 2: Cultural Diplomacy 5. "Propaganda Was Almost Nil"?: Soviet Books and Publishing in India in the 1960s 6. Indo-Soviet Circus Exchanges During the Cold War: State Propaganda or a People’s Art Form? Part 3: Artists and Agency 7. Narratives of Education and Migration: From La Noire de… (1966) to Octobre (1993) 8. Brecht as a Tool for Cultural Development: East German ITI Events for Theatre Artists from the "Third World" 9. "Clean Tablets to Write Upon": Ibsen’s Brand in Riga and Moscow in the 1970s Part 4: Cultures of Things 10. Soviet Books, Geopolitical Imagination and Eclectic Solidarities in India 11. National Theatres in Africa Between Modular Modernity and Cultural Heritage
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Japanâs Threat Perception during the Cold War
Book SynopsisOren re-examines Japanâs threat perception during the first two decades of the Cold War, using a wide range of source materials, including many unavailable in English, or only recently declassified.There is a widely shared misconception that during the Cold War the Japanese were largely shielded from threats due to the American military protection, the regional balance of power, Japanâs geographical insularity, and domestic aversion to militarism. Oren dispels this, showing how security threats pervaded Japanese strategic thinking in this period. By dispelling this misconception, Oren enables us to more accurately gauge the degree to which Japanâs threat perception has evolved during and after the end of the Cold War and to enhance our understanding of Tokyoâs strategic calculus in the current situation of rivalry between China and the United States. This book will be of great value to both scholars of Japanese history and contemporary international relations. <
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories
Book SynopsisTaking a global and interdisciplinary approach, the Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories provides a comprehensive overview of conspiracy theories as an important social, cultural and political phenomenon in contemporary life.Trade Review"This handbook is an essential resource for researchers. Its broadly accessible, insightful essays cover a range of topics from different disciplines and about different nations, and it demonstrates the importance of conspiracy theories in contemporary politics and society." — Mark Fenster, Levin College of Law at University of Florida, USA"This wide-ranging collection brings together many different strands of scholarship on conspiracy theories. Sociologists, political theorists, historians, psychologists, and philosophers provide new and compelling ways to examine who believes in these theories, why they believe them, and what we can do about them. An essential exploration of one of the defining features of our age." — Kathryn Olmsted, University of California, USATable of ContentsPart I: Definitions and approaches Introduction 1. Conceptual history and conspiracy theory 2. Conspiracy theory in historical, cultural and literary studies 3. Semiotic Approaches to Conspiracy Theories 4. Philosophy and conspiracy theories 5. Psychoanalysis, critical theory and conspiracy theory 6. Conspiracy theory as occult cosmology in anthropology 7. Sociology, social theory and conspiracy theory 8. Conspiracy theories in political science and political theory 9. Social psychology of conspiracy theory 10. Social network analysis, social big data and conspiracy theories Part II: Psychological factors Introduction 1. Personality traits, cognitive styles and worldviews associated with beliefs in conspiracy theories 2. Social-cognitive processes underlying belief in conspiracy theories 3. Motivations, emotions and belief in conspiracy theories 4. Conspiracy theories as psycho-political reactions to perceived power 5. How conspiracy theories spread 6. Conspiracy theories and intergroup relations 7. Consequences of conspiracy theories 8. Countering conspiracy theories and misinformation Part III: Society and politics Introduction 1. Who are the conspiracy theorists? Demographics and conspiracy theories 2. Conspiracy theory entrepreneurs, movements and individuals 3. Conspiracy theories and gender and sexuality 4. Conspiracy theories, political ideology and political behaviour 5. Functions and uses of conspiracy theories in authoritarian regimes 6. Conspiracy theory and populism 7. Radicalisation and conspiracy theories 8. Antisemitism and conspiracism 9. Conspiracy theory and religion Part IV: Media and transmission Introduction 1. Rumours, urban legends and the verbal transmission of conspiracy theories 2. Conspiracy theorising and the history of media in the eighteenth century 3. Genres of conspiracy in nineteenth-century British writing 4. Conspiracy in American narrative 5. Conspiracy theories and visual culture 6. Conspiracy theories in film and television shows 7. Decoding mass media / encoding conspiracy theory 8. The Internet and the spread of conspiracy content 9. Networked disinformation and the lifecycle of online conspiracy theories 10. Conspiracy theories and fake news Part V: Histories and regions Introduction 1. Conspiracy theories in the Roman empire 2. Conspiracy theories in the Middle Ages and the early modern period 3. Freemasons, Illuminati and Jews: Conspiracy theories and the French Revolution 4. Conspiracy Theories in Europe during the twentieth century 5. Conspiracy theories in Putin’s Russia: the case of the ‘New World Order’ 6. Conspiracy theories in and about the Balkans 7. Conspiracy theories in Turkey 8. Conspiracy theories in the Middle East 9. Conspiracy theories in Southeast Asia 10. Conspiracy theories in American history 11. Populism and conspiracy theory in Latin America: a case study of Venezuela
£42.74
Taylor & Francis Ltd A British Education Control Officer in Occupied
Book SynopsisEdward Aitken-Davies (1899-1981) served as an Education Control Officer in the British Zone of occupied Germany from the early summer of 1945 until December 1949. He thus experienced the implementation of policy in the Zone from the very beginnings of the occupation until the founding of the Federal Republic of German y in 1949. During the period 1945 to 1947 he wrote weekly letters home to his mother. Those letters, together with the many speeches he gave in Germany during his time as a leading British officer in the Hanover region have not hitherto been available to researchers but can now be made accessible in edited form. The letters are placed in the context of developments in British policy and with explanatory notes on the detail. Taken together, his letters and other documents provide insights into the day-to-day lives of the impressive group of individuals who oversaw the development of education in Germany from post-war chaos to the reform and stability which restorTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Education in the British Zone of Germany, 1945-1949 3. Edward Aitken-Davies, 1899-1981 4. Edward Aitken-Davies’s Letters to his Mother, May 1945-December 1947 5. Postscript, 1948-1949 and After
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Commonwealth and Independence in PostSoviet
Book SynopsisCommonwealth and Independence in Post-Soviet Eurasia (1998) examines the various attempts to create new forms of integration by the new states of Eurasia. The contributors to this volume analyse in detail how the national elites in the independent states conceived their regional policies. It looks in particular at the Russian-led Commonwealth of Independent States, feared by many of the newly-independent nations as being the Soviet Union Mark II.
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Taylor & Francis In the Direction of the Persian Gulf
Book SynopsisIn the Direction of the Persian Gulf (1977) analyses the Soviet Unionâs interest in the countries of the Persian Gulf against the background of its relations with the Arab world, and the complexities of power politics. It examines, from the nineteenth century to the present, Russiaâs involvement in and efforts to gain at least a foothold, if not control of this oil-rich region. Particular attention is paid to the Sovietâs interest in Persian Gulf oil, and Russian fuel resources are also discussed. Although bilateral and multilateral local relations are closely examined, power politics in general and in the region and the Indian Ocean are not neglected. In addition to Soviet sources, the authors have used the Arab and Western press, periodicals and monitoring services extensively.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The EU and China
Book SynopsisThis edited book is devoted to an analysis of how the multiple modernities approach might help strengthen the strategic autonomy of the European Union and foster cooperative EUChina relations at a time when some observers believe that a new global cold war may be on the horizon. An international, interdisciplinary team of eminent scholars analyzes both the forces causing dangerous tensions to escalate and those that might stabilize the situation. Whether from China or Europe, the authors largely converge in their diagnoses. To serve its own vital interests, the EU can and must play the role of a politically independent actor, a mediator committed to the preservation of a fair and peaceful rules-based order. To do that, it must first pinpoint the economic and political concerns that it shares with both China and the USA, using them as guidelines in developing its own global strategies. The chapters collected in this volume try to shed light on that endeavor. Additionally, several aim
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Taylor & Francis The Ideological Cold War
Book SynopsisThis book opens new perspectives into the Cold War ideological confrontations. Using Austria and Finland as an example, it shows how the Cold War battles for the hearts and minds of the people also influenced policies in countries that wished to stay outside the conflict. Following the model of older European neutrals, Austria and Finland sought to combine neutrality with democracy. The combination was eagerly challenged by ideological Cold Warriors on both sides of the divide and questioned at home too. Was neutrality risking the neutralsâ commitment to democracy, or did the commitment to the western type of democracy threaten their commitment to neutrality? Confronting these doubts grew into an organic part of practicing neutrality in the Cold War world. The neutrals needed to be exceptionally clear regarding the ideological foundations of their neutrality. Successful neutrality required a great deal of conceptual consistence and domestic unanimity. None of this
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Headline Publishing Group Shadow Cell
Book SynopsisA thrilling firsthand account by husband-and-wife ex-CIA operatives.
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Cambridge University Press Latin Americas Radical Left
Book SynopsisThis book examines the emergence, development, and demise of a network of organizations of young leftist militants and intellectuals in South America. This new generation, formed primarily by people who in the late 1960s were still under the age of thirty, challenged traditional politics and embraced organized violence and transnational strategies as the only ways of achieving social change in their countries during the Cold War. This lasted for more than a decade, beginning in Uruguay as a result of the rise of authoritarianism in Brazil and Argentina, and expanding with Che Guevara''s Bolivia campaign in 1966. These coordination efforts reached their highest point in Buenos Aires from 1973 to 1976, until the military coup d''état in Argentina eliminated the last refuge for these groups. Aldo Marchesi offers the first in-depth, regional and transnational study of the militant left in Latin America during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s.Trade Review'Marchesi's ambitious transnational history of radical politics in the Southern Cone blazes exciting paths for understanding Latin America's distinctive variants of the Cold War and the New Left. Based on new written and oral sources, it also fleshes out new dimensions of the Global Sixties and the consolidation of authoritarian regimes, while provoking us to reconsider the legacies of radical leftist politics. A surpassing achievement.' Gil Joseph, Yale University, Connecticut'This is an important book on an important subject that has been little studied and less well understood. This is required reading for scholars and students of the Cold War in Latin America and the contest between revolution and counter-revolution in the Southern Cone.' Peter Winn, Tufts University, Massachusetts, and author of Weavers of Revolution'Marchesi does a superb job of tracing the development of strategic thinking about armed revolution and social change as it responded to shifting international conditions. … this is an informative and well-researched book, making effective contributions to the history of the Left during Latin America's Cold War, and the political, intellectual, and cultural history of militant groups.' Patrick Iber, H-LatAmTable of ContentsIntroduction: actions, ideas, and emotions in the construction of a transnational radicalism in the Southern Cone; 1. Revolution without the Sierra Maestra: the Tupamaros and the development of a repertoire of dissent for urbanized countries. Montevideo, 1962–8; 2. The subjective bonds of revolutionary solidarity. From Havana to Ñancahuazú (Bolivia), 1967; 3. Dependence or armed struggle. Southern Cone intellectuals and militants questioning the legal path to socialism. Santiago de Chile 1970-3; 4. 'The decisive round in Latin America's revolution' – Bolivian, Chilean, and Uruguayan activists in Peronist Argentina. Buenos Aires, 1973–6; 5. Surviving democracy. The transition from armed struggle to human rights (1981–9); Conclusion: revolutionaries without revolution.
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Cambridge University Press Diplomacy Meets Migration
Book SynopsisDiplomacy Meets Migration examines diplomacy, migration, and the history of US relations with Cuba during the Cold War. Hideaki Kami draws on declassified US and Cuban diplomatic sources, as well as Miami-Cuban lobby records, to challenge traditional interpretations that mainly focus on the two national capitals, Washington and Havana. By incorporating Miami into the story of foreign affairs, Kami assesses the intersection between migration and diplomacy, and considers how migration emerged as a critical issue that shaped the dynamism of US relations with Cuba. Kami demonstrates that the US government reformulated its Cuban policy in response to Fidel Castro''s institutionalization of power, while simultaneously trying to build a new relationship with the Miami Cuban community, a new, politically mobilized constituency within US society. He shows how both migration control and migrant politics became important components of US foreign policy, which in turn influenced Cuban policy towarTrade Review'Kami has fashioned a compelling assessment of Cuban immigration as a factor of decisive policy importance, and thereupon to plumb deeply into the complexities of Cuba-US relations between the 1960s and the 1990s. He answers some old questions and, just as important, he has raised new ones.' Louis A. Pérez, The American Historical Review'Using an impressive array of multinational sources, Hideaki Kami weaves the compelling tale of how Cuba's migration became ultra-politicized and how, in turn, it sabotaged US diplomatic relations with the Castro regime. Never again should we discuss US-Cuban relations without due consideration for the Cuban diaspora.' Alan McPherson, author of Yankee No!'Diplomacy Meets Migration will find a prominent place on the shelves of scholars of the Cold War, immigration, and American politics. Smartly written and compellingly argued, this book reveals how leaders in Miami, Havana, and Washington, DC managed the complex political and policy issues arising at the intersection of diplomacy and migration. In telling this story, Hideaki Kami recasts our understanding of Cuban-American relations and shows himself as one of the best young historians of migration and America and the World.' Carl Bon Tempo, author of Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War'Kami's transnational approach to narrating how Cuban migrants actively shaped the US 'national interest' is valuable to scholars of international migration … To interlace previously disparate threads of Washington, Havana, and Miami's relationships with one another, Kami draws on an impressive range of sources.' Melissa Hampton, International Migration Review'Kami's remarkable study reminds us that migration remains a historical constant. Rare is the nation that exists without some portion of its citizens living abroad.' Jonathan C. Brown, Diplomatic History'Diplomacy Meets Migration is based on an impressive range of sources, including (recently declassified) US and Cuban government archives, records of Cuban-American lobby groups, and supporting materials from the diplomatic records of Canada, Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom. The insights that Kami derives from these archives, as well as secondary sources that range from diplomatic histories to sociological studies, add up to an original analysis of US-Cuban relations throughout the Cold War.' Jorrit van den Berk, Diplomatica'Analysts disagree about how to explain a state's foreign policies. One group focuses on the effects the power distribution among states has on the actions of a state; a second group emphasizes the role of domestic politics; and a third concentrates on the ideas and beliefs of the state's leaders. Kami's excellent analysis transcends those artificial boundaries … he identifies the multiple external factors that affected the complex interactions between Havana, Washington, and Miami.' Alex Roberto Hybel, The AmericasTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Between revolution and counterrevolution; 2. The legacy of violence; 3. A time for dialogue?; 4. The crisis of 1980; 5. Acting as a 'superhero'?; 6. The two contrary currents; 7. Making foreign policy domestic?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cryptic Concrete
Book SynopsisCryptic Concrete explores bunkered sites in Cold War Germany in order to understand the inner workings of the Cold War state. A scholarly work that suggests a reassessment of the history of geo- and bio-politics Attempts to understand the material architecture that was designed to protect and take life in nuclear war Zooms in on two types of structures - the nuclear bunker and the atomic missile silo Analyzes a broad range of sources through the lens of critical theory and argues for an appreciation of the two subterranean structures' complementary nature Trade Review'A serendipitous childhood discovery led the author on a personal and professional odyssey. Klinke immerses us in the zeitgeist of Cold War West Germany – a partitioned country created by post-war rivalries and foreign occupation. By investigating its subterranean qualities, he reveals a world far more complex and contradictory than accounts preoccupied with surface-level check-points and walls. Highly recommended.'Klaus Dodds, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London 'Cryptic Concrete provides a fascinating and original exploration of how the distinctive German experiences of the Cold War and the aftermath of fascism can be read through their inscription in the architectural and landscape remains of atomic missile sites and nuclear bunkers. Ian Klinke reveals how the infrastructure of 20th century military destruction and survival informs the materiality of geopolitics in the present.'Rachel Woodward, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle UniversityTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface vi Preface vii 1 Of Blood and Soil 1 2 Lebensraum and Its Underside 22 3 Return to the Soil 45 4 Nuclear Living Space 67 5 Spaces of Extermination 91 6 Enter the Void 111 7 Conclusion 130 References 142 Index 167
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War
Book SynopsisIn mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims across the Iron Curtain to neighboring Turkey. It was the single largest ethnic cleansing during the Cold War in Europe after the wrapping up of the postwar expulsions (population transfers') of ethnic Germans from Central Europe in the latter half of the 1940s. Furthermore, this expulsion of Turks and Muslims from Bulgaria was the sole unilateral act of ethnic cleansing that breached the Iron Curtain. The 1989 ethnic cleansing was followed by an unprecedented return of almost half of the expellees, after the collapse of the Bulgarian communist regime. The return, which partially reversed the effects of this ethnic cleansing, was the first-ever of its kind in history. Despite the unprecedented character of this 1989 expulsion and the subsequent return, not a single research article, let alone a monograph, has been devoted to these momentoTrade Review"Kamusella shows the way for a future Bulgaria. The recognition of ethnic cleansing is important not only in terms of historical justice and responsibility but also for the future transformation of Bulgaria into a country attractive for immigrants" - Vasil Paraskevov, Konstantin Preslavsky University, Bulgaria, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations, and of the Names of Parties and Organizations Mentioned; The Bulgarian Governments During and After the Removal of Todor Zhivkov from Office; The Heads of State of Bulgaria During and After the Removal of Todor Zhivkov from Office; Introduction; 1. On Forgetfulness and Its Perils; 2. The State of Research on the 1989 Expulsion; 3.The 1989 Ethnic Cleansing Through the Lens of the International Press; 4. The Ethnic Cleansing’s Aftermath and the Regime Change; 5. The Official Coming to Terms with the 1989 Ethnic Cleansing; 6. Between Language and Millet; 7. The Question of Responsibility; Conclusion; Postscriptum; Bibliography; Index
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties
Book SynopsisâThis extraordinary collection is a game-changer. Featuring the cutting-edge work of over forty scholars from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties is breathtaking in its range, incisive in analyses, and revolutionary in method and evidence. Here, fifty years after that iconic 1968, Western Europe and North America are finally de-centered, if not provincialized, and we have the basis for a complete remapping, a thorough reinterpretation of the Sixties.â âJean Allman, J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities; Director, Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. LouisâThis is a landmark achievement. It represents the most comprehensive effort to date to map out the myriad constitutive elements of the Global Sixties as a field of knowledge and inquiry. Richly illustrated and meticulously curated, this collection purposefully provincializes the United States and Western Europe while shifting the loci of interpretation tTable of ContentsPreface, Odd Arne Westad Introduction, Martin Klimke and Mary Nolan I. TRANSNATIONAL SPACES 1. Transnational Connections of the Global Sixties as Seen by a Historian of Brazil, Victoria Langland 2. Liberation in Transit: Eduardo Mondlane and Che Guevara in Dar es Salaam, Andrew Ivaska 3. Subversive Communities and the "Rhodesian Sixties": An Exploration of Transnational Protests, 1965–1973, Dan Hodgkinson 4. Building Anti-Colonial Utopia: The Politics of Space in Soviet Tashkent in the "Long 1960s", Masha Kirasirova 5. The Meanings of Western Maoism in the Global 1960s, Quinn Slobodian II. FOREIGN AND CIVIL WARS 6. The Revolution before the Revolution: Student Protest and Political Process at the End of the Portuguese Dictatorship, Guya Accornero 7. Red Arabia: Anti-Colonialism, the Cold War, and the Long Sixties in the Gulf States, Toby Matthiesen 8. Making a "Second Vietnam": The Congolese Revolution and Its Global Connections in the 1960s, Pedro Monaville 9. Australia, the Long 1960s, and the Winds of Change in the Asia-Pacific, Jon Piccini III. LIFESTYLES AND COUNTERCULTURES 10. Rebellious Bodies: Urban Youth Fashion in the Sixties and Seventies in Mali, Ophélie Rillon 11. Mexico 1968: Events, Assessments, and Antecedents, Mary Kay Vaughan 12. Operación amor: Hippies, Musicians, and Cultural Transformation in El Salvador, Joaquín M. Chávez 13. A Mediterranean 60s: Cultural Politics in Turkey, Greece, and Beyond, Kenan Behzat Sharpe 14. From the Maiak to the Psichodrom: How Sixties Counterculture Came to Moscow, Juliane Fürst 15. East Looks West: Belgrade’s Young People Evaluate Western Counterculture and Student Activism, Madigan Fichter IV. WOMEN AND FEMINISM 16. Hypervisibility and Invisibility: Asian/American Women, Radical Orientalism, and the Revisioning of Global Feminism, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu 17. The Global Left-Feminist 1960s: From Copenhagen to Moscow and New York, Francisca de Haan 18. Unraveling a Tradition, or Spinning a Myth?: Gender Critique in Czech Society and Culture, Libora Oates-Indruchová 19. Modernizing Palestinian Women: Between Colonialism and Nationalism—Reflections on the 1960s and 1970s, Islah Jad V. THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER: DIPLOMACY AND ECONOMICS 20. Détente and the Global Sixties, Mario Del Pero 21. In the Wake of Czechoslovakia, 1968: Reflections on Beijing’s Split with Moscow and Rapprochement with Washington, Chen Jian 22. "Beautiful Americans": Peace Corps Iran in the Global Sixties, Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi 23. Where Was the Economy in the Global Sixties?, Mary Nolan VI. AFRICA 24. 1968—A Post-Colonial Phenomenon?: The "Mays" of France and Africa, Françoise Blum 25. May ’68 in Africa: Dakar in the Worldwide Social Movement, Omar Gueye 26. 1969—Ethiopia’s 1968, Bahru Zewde 27. Tanzanian Ujamaa in a World of Peripheral Socialisms, Priya Lal VII. ASIA 28. The Chinese Sixties: Mobility, Imagination, and the Sino-Japanese Friendship Association, Zachary A. Scarlett 29. The US Cold War and the Japanese Student Movement, 1947–1973, Naoko Koda 30. Making Non-Dissident Youth: The IFYE and Agrarian Youth in Asia and America, Gregg Andrew Brazinsky 31. The Global Sixties in Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia, Claudia Derichs VIII. THE MIDDLE EAST 32. The Iranian Student Movement and the Making of Global 1968, Manijeh Nasrabadi and Afshin Matin-asgari 33. Matzpen: A Different Israeli History, Lutz Fiedler 34. An Un-Revolutionary Decolonization: The 1960s and the United Arab Emirates, Shohei Sato 35. Cairo and the Cultural Cold War for Afro-Asia, Elizabeth M. Holt 36. The Revival of Protest in Egypt on the Eve of Sadat, Abdullah Al-Arian 37. Shafiq’s Bag of Memories, Mohamed Elshahed IX. REPRESENTATIONS, LEGACIES, AFTERLIVES 38. Disseminating the Tricontinental, Robert J. C. Young 39. Heroine of the Other America: The East German Solidarity Movement in Support of Angela Davis, 1970–73, Sophie Lorenz 40. Let Them Eat Meat: The Literary Afterlives of Castro’s and Nasser’s Dietary Utopias, Eman Morsi 41. The Dialectics of Liberation: The Global 1960s and the Present, Christopher Connery
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Cold War 19492016
Book SynopsisCovering the development of the Cold War from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, The Cold War 19492016 explores the struggle for world domination that took place between the United States and the Soviet Union following the Second World War. The conflict between these two superpowers shaped global history for decades, and this book examines how this conflict developed into a nuclear arms race, spurred much of the wider world towards war and eventually resulted in the collapse of the Soviet empire. In this accessible yet comprehensive volume, Martin McCauley examines not only the actions of the United States and the Soviet Union but also the effects upon and involvement of other regions such as Africa, Central America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Key themes include the Sino-Soviet relationship and the global ambitions of the newly formed People's Republic of China, the rise and fall of communism in countries such as Cuba, Angola and Ethiopia, the US defeTrade Review"The Cold War 1949–2016 is the most readable, comprehensive, knowledgeable narrative of the Cold War. No one can read this book without learning something new, unusual and thought-provoking."Christopher Read, University of Warwick, UKTable of ContentsList of Maps List of Illustrations Foreword 1. ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR 2. COLD WAR: 1949–53 3. TO THE BRINK AND BACK: 1953–62 4. THE US AND THE SOVIET UNION IN THE THIRD WORLD 5. THE SINO-SOVIET SCHISM 6. CUBA, VIETNAM AND INDONESIA 7. THE WAR OF CULTURES 8. THE PRAGUE SPRING 9. DÉTENTE: 1969–79 10. THE ISLAMIC CHALLENGE TO GDÁNSK: IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN 11. CAMBODIA-KAMPUCHEA 12. POST-DÉTENTE: 1979–85 13. GORBACHEV AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR 14. THE JUDGEMENT 15. THE POST–COLD WAR WORLD Further Reading References
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Liveright Cold Peace
Book SynopsisAn urgent examination of the world barrelling toward a new Cold War, from a scholar on the diplomatic front lines
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Hungarian AvantGarde and Socialism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis astute monograph offers a survey of Hungarian avant-garde art of the 1960s-80s that is at once accessible and methodologically rigorous. Its elucidation of the entanglements between the first (official) public sphere and its counterpart, the second (unofficial) public sphere, is thoroughly invigorating. * Klara Kemp-Welch, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK *‘This timely and expertly researched study of unofficial Kádár-era art explores the resourcefulness and ingenuity of Hungarian artists keen to push the limits of artistic freedom. The book is indispensable for anyone interested in the question what it meant to be radical for an artist in post-1956 Hungary, and beyond.’ * Sven Spieker, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA *Drawing on a wealth of research, Cseh-Varga provides a new and accessible interpretation of radical art phenomena in Hungary under socialism. The book points to the importance of the public sphere for the democratic ambitions and battles with authority of the East European neo-avant-garde. * Edit Sasvári, Art historian and Director of the Kassák Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary *Table of Contents1. Acknowledgements 2. Introduction 3. Public Spheres and Spatiality 4. The Happening and the Consolidation of the Art of the Second Public Sphere 5. Places of Resonance – Artist Studios 6. Official Venues, Semi-Official Art: Party-Run Locations 7. Turning Private into Public – Apartment Culture 8. Avant-Garde above the Ground 9. Conclusion 10. Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Oxford Revise GCSE Edexcel History Superpower
Book SynopsisOxford Revise Edexcel GCSE History: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91 is a complete revision and practice book covering the full topic specification. Revise everything you need to know for this choice of period topic in the GCSE Edexcel History exam, from early tension between East and West to the collapse of the USSR. Each development or crisis is clearly covered. By working through the Knowledge - Retrieval - Practice sections, you will be using proven ways to revise, check and recall so that what you revise sticks in your memory. Knowledge Organisers arrange the information you need to revise helping you to make connections with what you already know. Timelines and charts are used so that key information is presented in a meaningful way. An online glossary helps you to learn the definitions to key terms. Use Retrieval questions to check that you have remembered what you have just revised before moving on to the exam practice. Regular retrieval questions help to combatTable of Contents1: Early tension between East and West 2: The development of the Cold War 3: The Cold War intensifies 4: Cold War crisis: Berlin 1958-61 5: Cold War crisis: Cuba 6: Cold War crisis: the Prague Spring 7: Changing relationship between the superpowers 8: The collapse of the USSR
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Amberley Publishing In the Enemys House
Book SynopsisNew paperback edition - From a New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer-nominated journalist, the recently de-classified story of the Cold War spies who changed the world.Trade Review‘The last piece of the puzzle surrounding one of the most memorable espionage cases of the 20th century.’ -- New York Times‘The spy hunt set off by the Venona decrypts is one of the great stories of the Cold War and Howard Blum tells it here with the drama and page-turning pace of a classic thriller.’ -- Joseph Kanon, bestselling author of Defectors, Leaving Berlin, and Los Alamos‘A finely detailed study of crime and punishment in the days of the Manhattan project… [In the Enemy's House] reinforces several points: how thoroughly Soviet agents were able to penetrate the government and scientific circles and the undeniable guilt of those who were eventually brought to justice – and, to boot, the ordinariness of some of the key players. Taut and well-crafted – of great interest to students of spydom and the early Cold War.’ -- Kirkus Reviews
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Amberley Publishing Britains Cold War Heritage
Book SynopsisAn illustrated tour of some of the most significant Cold War locations still in existence today, and what they tell us about Britain's Cold War history.
£14.39
Pen & Sword Books Ltd A Royal Navy Cold War Buccaneer Pilot
Book SynopsisThis is a vivid and powerful story of life on board the Royal Navy's Cold War aircraft carriers.
£18.70
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Underground Structures of the Cold War
Book SynopsisWorld-wide guide to the underground structures of the Cold War.
£16.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Cold War Hot Wings
Book SynopsisThis is the story of an ordinary cold war fighter pilot, with campaigns from an air viewpoint, showing detail of how we lost parts of our Empire.
£17.09
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Soviet Air Power of the Cold War
Book SynopsisComprehensive and authoritative work on the whole range of Soviet aircraft and helicopters in service during the Cold War.
£23.80
Pen & Sword Books Ltd A Peoples History of the Cold War
Book SynopsisProvides an extensively illustrated history of the 1945-91 period - as witnessed and told though the lives of ordinary people from both sides of the East/West divide.
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LITTLE BROWN BOOKS GROUP Cold Warriors Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold
Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking and fascinating book, Duncan White illuminates a period in history in which literature became one of the most potent of weapons, and its authors often the bravest of warriors: the Cold War.
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Abrams Hollywood Double Agent
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Shaking up our stock images of Cold War espionage, Gill’s real-life thriller uncovers the improbable tale of a Russian Jewish immigrant impresario who played both the FBI and the KGB for fools. The result is a riveting read.” -- James Loeffler * author of Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century *“A Hollywood mover and shaker takes center stage in a brisk tale of spies and counterspies.. . . In a narrative that reads like an espionage thriller, Gill follows his subject’s peripatetic travels and interactions with malevolent, powerful—and sometimes bumbling—characters.” * Kirkus *"With this fascinating and detailed narrative, Gill (American history & culture Univ. of Amsterdam) proves the adage that truth is stranger than fiction. . . Gill’s captivating, fast-paced narrative reads like a thriller and will leave readers wanting more. Highly recommended for those who love stories of espionage.” * Library Journal *“Readers of Hollywood Double Agent may come for the glitter, but they'll stay for the intrigue. Although Gill's book reads like a Cold War thriller, at heart it's the amazing true story of an American dream gone wrong. . . . Like a multiplex blockbuster, this biography of a Russian-born Hollywood player turned spy has it all: intrigue, glamour, humor, romance and danger.” * Shelf Awareness *“[Jonathan Gill’s] work is convincing and extensive, in addition to being well-written and perceptive. His subject, Boris Morrow, was an empty vessel who could be turned left or right depending on how it satisfied his personal interest.” * New York Journal of Books *“Mr. Gill has done justice to this impossible-to-invent character and in the process has brought to life the world of ideologues and opportunists in which Morros made his peculiar mark.” * The Wall Street Journal *
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Rebel Cafe
Book SynopsisSubterranean nightspots in 1950s New York and San Francisco were social, cultural, and political hothouses for left-wing bohemians. The art and antics of rebellious figures in 1950s American nightlifefrom the Beat Generation to eccentric jazz musicians and comedianshave long fascinated fans and scholars alike. In The Rebel Café, Stephen R. Duncan flips the frame, focusing on the New York and San Francisco bars, nightclubs, and coffeehouses from which these cultural icons emerged. Duncan shows that the sexy, smoky sites of bohemian Greenwich Village and North Beach offered not just entertainment but doorways to a new sociopolitical consciousness. This book is a collective biography of the places that harbored beatniks, blabbermouths, hipsters, playboys, and partisans who altered the shape of postwar liberal politics and culture. Throughout this period, Duncan argues, nightspots were crucialalbeit informalinstitutions of the American democratic public sphere. Amid the Red Scare's repreTrade ReviewAn outstanding work of cultural history that is also one of cultural geography. Rarely has a book about a subculture revealed such an extraordinary sense of place. [Duncan] animates the Village for those who only heard it described as a bohemian utopia. The San Remo, the Village Vanguard, and the White Horse Tavern leap from names on the page to places in the memory, causing readers who know the territory to pause and remember a scene that is no more . . . Reaching the end of Duncan's remarkable book, I could not help but think of King Arthur's reflections in the final scene of the Broadway musical Camelot (1960): "For one brief shining hour" there was something known as Camelot. Such was Greenwich Village, as lovingly recreated by Duncan.—Bernard F. Dick, Fairleigh Dickinson University, H-DiploTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Maps of North Beach and Greenwich Village Introduction. Can You Show Me the Way to the Rebel Café? Chapter One. Blue Angels, Black Cats, and Reds: Cabaret and the Left-Wing Roots of the Rebel Café Chapter Two. Subterranean Aviators: Postwar America's Literary Underground Chapter Three. Bop Apocalypse, Freedom Now!: Jazz, Civil Rights, and the Politics of Cross-Racial Desire Chapter Four. Beatniks and Blabbermouths, Bartok and Bar Talk: New Bohemia and the Search for Community Chapter Five. Rise of the "Sickniks": Nightclubs, Humor, and the Public Sphere Chapter Six. The New Cabaret: Performance, Personal Politics, and the End of the Rebel Café Conclusion. Playboys and Partisans: American Culture, the New Left, and the Legacy of the Rebel Café Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Freedoms Laboratory
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA strong contribution to the history of modern science.—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewHistorian Wolfe offers a thoughtful, thoroughly researched history of how the American government employed science and scientists to improve world opinion of liberal democracy during the Cold War . . . [R]eaders with an interest in the conjunction of science and politics will find her book an informative one.—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewCold-war history, Wolfe writes, is not a heroes-and-villains narrative: it must be told in 'shades of gray.' The government used scientists' ideals for its own political reasons. And the scientists, who saw themselves as apolitical, used the government's political messages and support to question, observe, conclude, write and speak—freely and in accord with their ideals.—NatureOne of the common misbeliefs about science is that it is apolitical. Actually, as historian Wolfe reveals in her well-researched and closely argued study, during the Cold War, American scientists were often deeply involved in promoting American cultural values to other parts of the world in an effort to defeat the communists at the same game. An excellent study on a topic that deserves more attention.—Library JournalWolfe's new book, Freedom's Laboratory, frontally addresses questions of what science is, how it is best done, and how it (and scientists themselves) might be strategically deployed to advance national interests.—LA Review of BooksAudra Wolfe's provocative new book, Freedom's Laboratory, dives into the fascinating history of why asserting the apolitical nature of science became a political priority during another notably politicized period in America's past: the Cold War.—ScienceCarefully researched works on the Cultural Cold War, like Freedom's Laboratory, reveal what a murky world we have inherited. Scientists fighting against restrictions on their profession used the language of crusading anti-Communism, defining their work as apolitical and therefore free. But it was neither. The point is not, as Wolfe argues clearly, that 'freedom' is an impossible value to hold, nor that scientific internationalism isn't worth defending, nor that the fiction of apolitical science means that science is better off being relentlessly politicized. The point, rather, is that power and knowledge are always entwined. During the Cold War, American institutions were assumed to be ideal by default. We now know more than enough to understand that they were not, and that the task of making them better belongs to us.—New RepublicExplores the science of the Cold War beyond its more tangible role in developing weapons. Instead, Wolfe focuses on science as propaganda, part of America's psychological offensive designed to convince people to buy into American ideology. She traces the perception that science should be free and unimpeded by borders and politics to this era.—The VergeIt is hard to imagine a history of science that is more timely than one that situates our current political environment in the context of the Cold War . . . Wolfe's text is essential reading for both students and scientists who have been immersed in the idea of science as an apolitical pursuit.—Physics TodayThis book is a well-written and information-packed account of science's roles in American culture and diplomacy during the cold war and its denouement. [A] strength is the depth and breadth of the archival and historical research offered.—MetascienceTest DBRTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Western Science vs. Marxist Science2. Ambassadors for Science3. A War of Ideas4. Science and Freedom5. Science for Peace6. Science for Diplomacy7. Developing Scientific Minds8. An Unscientific Reckoning9. Scientists' Rights are Human RightsEpilogue
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Johns Hopkins University Press Our Germans
Book SynopsisA gripping history of one of the United States' most controversial Cold War intelligence operations. Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment or the documents recovered from caves and hastily abandoned warehouses, the German brains who designed and built the V-2 rocket and other wonder weapons for the Third Reich proved invaluable to America's emerging military-industrial complex. Whether they remained under military employment, transitioned to civilian agencies like NASA, or sought more lucrative careers with corporations flush with government contracts, German specialists recruited into the Paperclip program assumed enormously influential positions within the labyrinthine national security state. Drawing on recently declassified documents from intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, the FBI, aTrade ReviewThrough participant vignettes, historian Crim provides insight into early Cold War decision-making in this well-documented, microhistorical, dissertation-like expose of Project Paperclip. Highly recommended.—ChoiceA very fine account concerning the internal dynamics of the Paperclip program, providing a more nuanced evaluation than has hitherto been available.—H-Net ReviewsAt a time when drones, cyberweapons, and other high technology continue to substitute for coherent foreign policy, Crim's book is a sober reminder of the moral hazards of a technocratic national security state.—Journal of American HistoryWhat distinguishes Our Germans is its emphasis on the role of the specialists in the emerging national security state of the early Cold War, where Project Paperclip 'exacerbated the growing rift between the State Department and an ascendant national security bureaucracy' (99). But most importantly, Our Germans is a much-needed update and expansion of Clarence Lasby's 1971 Project Paperclip: German Scientists and the Cold War.—American Historical ReviewIn the aftermath of the Second World War, the US government recruited hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including the designers of the V2 rocket, to staff American agencies and companies under the so-called Paperclip programme. Crim draws on recently declassified documents to reveal the history of the programme and the controversies it provoked.—International Institute for Strategic StudiesTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Aristocracy of Evil2. Implements of Progress3. Conscientious Objectors4. Their Germans5. Paperclip VindicatedEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
£18.05
Johns Hopkins University Press Freedoms Laboratory
Book SynopsisThe Cold War ended long ago, but the language of science and freedom continues to shape public debates over the relationship between science and politics in the United States. Scientists like to proclaim that science knows no borders. Scientific researchers follow the evidence where it leads, their conclusions free of prejudice or ideology. But is that really the case? In Freedom's Laboratory, Audra J. Wolfe shows how these ideas were tested to their limits in the high-stakes propaganda battles of the Cold War. Wolfe examines the role that scientists, in concert with administrators and policymakers, played in American cultural diplomacy after World War II. During this period, the engines of US propaganda promoted a vision of science that highlighted empiricism, objectivity, a commitment to pure research, and internationalism. Working (both overtly and covertly, wittingly and unwittingly) with governmental and private organizations, scientists attempted to decide what, exactly, they mTrade ReviewA strong contribution to the history of modern science.—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewHistorian Wolfe offers a thoughtful, thoroughly researched history of how the American government employed science and scientists to improve world opinion of liberal democracy during the Cold War . . . [R]eaders with an interest in the conjunction of science and politics will find her book an informative one.—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewCold-war history, Wolfe writes, is not a heroes-and-villains narrative: it must be told in 'shades of gray.' The government used scientists' ideals for its own political reasons. And the scientists, who saw themselves as apolitical, used the government's political messages and support to question, observe, conclude, write and speak—freely and in accord with their ideals.—NatureOne of the common misbeliefs about science is that it is apolitical. Actually, as historian Wolfe reveals in her well-researched and closely argued study, during the Cold War, American scientists were often deeply involved in promoting American cultural values to other parts of the world in an effort to defeat the communists at the same game. An excellent study on a topic that deserves more attention.—Library JournalWolfe's new book, Freedom's Laboratory, frontally addresses questions of what science is, how it is best done, and how it (and scientists themselves) might be strategically deployed to advance national interests.—LA Review of BooksAudra Wolfe's provocative new book, Freedom's Laboratory, dives into the fascinating history of why asserting the apolitical nature of science became a political priority during another notably politicized period in America's past: the Cold War.—ScienceCarefully researched works on the Cultural Cold War, like Freedom's Laboratory, reveal what a murky world we have inherited. Scientists fighting against restrictions on their profession used the language of crusading anti-Communism, defining their work as apolitical and therefore free. But it was neither. The point is not, as Wolfe argues clearly, that 'freedom' is an impossible value to hold, nor that scientific internationalism isn't worth defending, nor that the fiction of apolitical science means that science is better off being relentlessly politicized. The point, rather, is that power and knowledge are always entwined. During the Cold War, American institutions were assumed to be ideal by default. We now know more than enough to understand that they were not, and that the task of making them better belongs to us.—New RepublicExplores the science of the Cold War beyond its more tangible role in developing weapons. Instead, Wolfe focuses on science as propaganda, part of America's psychological offensive designed to convince people to buy into American ideology. She traces the perception that science should be free and unimpeded by borders and politics to this era.—The VergeIt is hard to imagine a history of science that is more timely than one that situates our current political environment in the context of the Cold War . . . Wolfe's text is essential reading for both students and scientists who have been immersed in the idea of science as an apolitical pursuit.—Physics TodayThis book is a well-written and information-packed account of science's roles in American culture and diplomacy during the cold war and its denouement. [A] strength is the depth and breadth of the archival and historical research offered.—MetascienceTest DBRTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Western Science vs. Marxist Science2. Ambassadors for Science3. A War of Ideas4. Science and Freedom5. Science for Peace6. Science for Diplomacy7. Developing Scientific Minds8. An Unscientific Reckoning9. Scientists' Rights are Human RightsEpilogue
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Johns Hopkins University Press Saving the World from Nuclear War
Book SynopsisExamines how the June 12, 1982, rally for nuclear disarmament paved the way for a new generation of activists. On June 12, 1982, one million people filled the streets of New York City and rallied in Central Park to show support for the United Nations' Second Special Session on Disarmament. They demanded an end to the nuclear arms race and called for a shift from military funds to money allocated for human needs. In Saving the World from Nuclear War, Vincent J. Intondi draws on archival materials and interviews with rally organizers and activists in Central Park to explore this demonstration from its inception through the months of organizing, recruiting, and planning, to the historic day itself.
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