Cold wars and proxy conflicts Books
NUS Press Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisAn overlooked history of Southeast Asia’s varied healthcare regimes during the Cold War. For far too long, Southeast Asia has been treated as a static backdrop for the exploits and discoveries of Western biomedical doctors. Yet, Southeast Asians have been vital to the significant developments in the prevention and treatment of diseases that have taken place in the region and beyond. Many of the institutions and people that shaped subsequent responses to outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics first began their work in Southeast Asia during the Cold War. The diversity of approaches to health and medicine during that era also reminds us of the possibilities, and limits, of human intervention in the face of political, social, economic, and microbial realities. The people and places of Southeast Asia have provided clinical trials for different health regimes. Fighting for Health highlights new perspectives and methods that have evolved from research presented at regional conferences, including the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA) series. These insights serve to challenge dominant models of the medical humanities.Table of ContentsList of TablesList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Health, Agriculture and Animism in the 'Development' of Portuguese Timor, 1945- 1975Chapter 2: Tool of Domination and Act of Benevolence: Medicine and Healthcare during the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960Chapter 3: Health Sector Contestation in Cold War Laos, 1950-1975Chapter 4: More Eastern than Traditional: The Making of Ðông y in the Republic of Vietnam during the Cold WarChapter 5: Building a "socialist health system": Soviet assistance in malaria control in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam during the Cold WarChapter 6: Mobilising Applied Medical Knowledge for Indonesia: Soekarnoist Science and Asian-African Solidarity, 1950sChapter 7: The Cholera Pandemic, Chinese Diaspora, and the Cold War Politics in Southeast Asia and China during the 1960sChapter 8: Managing Wartime Conditions: South Korean Developmental Ambitions, Public Health, and Emerging Forms of Overseas Medical Outreach, 1964-1973GlossaryBibliographyContributorsIndex
£26.31
NUS Press US-Singapore Relations, 1965-1975: Strategic
Book SynopsisAt the height of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, the foreign relations between the United States and Singapore demonstrated the interplay between America’s strategy of containment and Singapore’s efforts at a non-aligned foreign policy. But there is a deeper story. American involvement in the Vietnam War not only held back the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, but also catalysed economic and strategic cooperation between the United States and Singapore. The author argues that Singapore might not have achieved its success so rapidly without the support of the US.As the war in Vietnam raged on, Singapore became a critical refueling point, also providing ship and aircraft repair for the US military. Commercial and strategic support from the United States lifted Singapore out of the economic doom predicted for the city-state after secession from Malaysia, cessation of Indonesian trade during Konfrontasi and Britain’s military withdrawal. By considering the importance of the US’s role in Singapore’s nation-building, this book provides an important supplement to the well-trodden narrative that attributes Singapore’s success to good governance.Trade Review"Daniel Chua deftly guides the reader through the complexities and nuances of this emerging relationship and in so doing, sheds new light on Singapore’s relations with the U.S. during the former’s first decade of independence. [...] In addition, his study provides fascinating insights into the twists and turns of Singaporean foreign policy at a crucial juncture in Asia’s regional politics. [...] a solid work of international history which makes a welcome contribution to the growing literature on the role of small regional powers in the unfolding of the Cold War in Southeast Asia." — H-Diplo Roundtable Review, Vol. XX.5
£26.06
Oxford University Press, USA Atomic Obsession
Book SynopsisEver since the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the prospect of nuclear annihilation has haunted the modern world. But as John Mueller reveals in this eye-opening, compellingly argued, and very reassuring book, our obsession with nuclear weapons is unsupported by history, scientific fact, or logic. Examining the entire atomic era, Mueller boldly contends that nuclear weapons have had little impact on history. Although they have inspired overwrought policies and distorted spending priorities, for the most part they have proved to be militarily useless, and a key reason so few countries have taken them up is that they are a spectacular waste of money and scientific talent. Equally important, Atomic Obsession reveals why anxieties about terrorists obtaining nuclear weapons are essentially baseless: a host of practical and organizational difficulties make their likelihood of success almost vanishingly small.Mueller, one of America''s most distinguished yet provocative internationalTrade ReviewHis witty and unmerciful intellectual attack on the doomsayers, who have been arguing for the past 50 years that rapid proliferation is just around the corner, that we stand on the brink of a new nuclear age, or that it is a few minutes to midnight, is a refreshing one. * Survival *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Part I. The Impact of Nuclear Weapons ; 1. Effects ; 2. Overstating the Effects ; 3. Deterring World War III: Essential Irrelevance ; 4. Influence on History ; 5. Influence on Rhetoric, Theorizing, and Budgets ; Part II. The Spread of Nuclear Weapons ; 6. Arms Races: Positive and Negative ; 7. Proliferation: Slow and Substantially Inconsequential ; 8. The Modest Appeal and Value of Nuclear Weapons ; 9. Controlling Proliferation ; 10. Assessing the Costs of the Proliferation Fixation ; 11. Reconsidering Proliferation Policy ; Part III. The Atomic Terrorist? ; 12. Task ; 13. Likelihood ; 14. Progress and Interest ; 15. Capacity
£26.99
Taylor & Francis A Cold War In The Soviet Bloc
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Power And Persuasion
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art And Science Of Geography Us And Soviet Perspectives
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art And Science Of Geography Us And Soviet Perspectives
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£39.99
Taylor & Francis European Socialist Regimes Fateful Engagement with the West National Strategies in the Long 1970s Cold War History
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis The Last Year of President Kennedy and the Multiple Path Policy Toward Cuba Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Cold War
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£35.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Cold War
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Translating Cuba
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£118.75
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge History of U.S. Foreign Relations
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£204.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd A History of Cold War Industrialisation
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis A Global Financial History of Oil Crises
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£137.75
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Spy Who Would Be Tsar
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Spy Who Would Be Tsar
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£25.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Bondian Cold War
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Politics and the Slavic Languages
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Politics and the Slavic Languages
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£37.99
Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£43.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Soviet Science and Engineering in the Shadow of the Cold War
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£39.99
Taylor & Francis Romania under Communism
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£39.99
Taylor & Francis 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 (âpopulation transfersâ) 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 momentTrade 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
£39.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Institution of International Order
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£39.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd European Socialist Regimes Fateful Engagement with the West
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£39.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Johnson Administrations Cuba Policy
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£39.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd StatePrivate Networks and Intelligence Theory
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Cold War Cities
Book SynopsisThis book examines the impact of the Cold War in a global context and focuses on city-scale reactions to the atomic warfare. It explores urbanism as a weapon to combat the dangers of the communist intrusion into the American territories and promote living standards for the urban poor in the US cities.The Cold War saw the birth of atomic urbanisation', central to which were planning, politics and cultural practices of the newly emerged cities. This book examines cities in the Arctic, Europe, Asia and Australasia in detail to reveal how military, political, resistance and cultural practices impacted on the spaces of everyday life. It probes questions of city planning and development, such as: How did the threat of nuclear war affect planning at a range of geographic scales? What were the patterns of the built environment, architectural forms and material aesthetics of atomic urbanism in difference places? And, how did the Bomb' manifest itself in civic governance, popular mediaTable of ContentsCold War Cities: Spatial Planning, Social and Political Processes, and Cultural Practices in the Age of Atomic Urbanism, 1945-1965 Part 1: Planning the Cold War City 1. Properties of Science: How Industrial Research and the Suburbs Reshaped Each Other in Cold-War Pittsburgh 2. The City of Bristol: Ground Zero in the Making 3. Towards a Prosperous Future Through Cold War Planning: Stalinist Urban Design in the Industrial Towns of Sillamäe and Kohtla-Järve, Estonia 4. Nuclear Anxiety in Postwar Japan’s City of the Future Visual Essay: Urbanism of Fear: A Tale of Two Chinese Cold War Cities Part 2: Building the Cold War City 5. The Warsaw Metro and the Warsaw Pact: From Deep Cover to Cut-and-Cover 6. Competing Militarisation and Urban Development During the Cold War: How a Soviet Air Base Came to Dominate Tartu, Estonia 7. In-Between the East and the West: Architecture and Urban Planning in ‘Non-Aligned’ Skopje 8. Atomic Urbanism Under Greenland’s Ice Cap: Camp Century and Cold War Architectural Imagination Visual Essay: Warfare or Welfare? Civil Defence and Emergency Planning in Danish Urban Welfare Architecture Part 3: Culture and Politics in the Cold War City 9. Urban Space, Public Protest, and Nuclear Weapons in Early Cold War Sydney 10. In the Middle of the Atomic Arena: Visible and Invisible NATO Sites in Verona During the Nineteen Fifties 11. Conceiving the Atomic Bomb Threat Between West and East: Mobilisation, Representation and Perception Against the A-bomb in 1950s Red Bologna 12. Making a ‘Free World’ City: Urban Space and Social Order in Cold War Bangkok Visual Essay: Cold War Telecommunication and Urban Vulnerability – Underground Exchange and Microwave Tower in Manchester
£39.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Competing Imperialisms in Northeast Asia
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd The British Aircraft Industry and Americanled Globalisation
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Cold War Assemblages
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£41.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Journeys of Soviet Things
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£118.75
Taylor & Francis America and Romania in the Cold War
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£33.99
Taylor & Francis Communist Propaganda at School The World of the Reading Primers from the Soviet Bloc 19491989 Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Communist Propaganda at School
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£37.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Central Europe Revisited
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd British Nuclear Mobilisation Since 1945
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd British Nuclear Mobilisation Since 1945
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£39.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Nixon Administration and Cuba Continuity and Rupture
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Nixon Administration and Cuba
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£37.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Modernism in LateMao China
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£118.75
Taylor & Francis Modernism in LateMao China
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£37.99
Taylor & Francis US Foreign Policy in The Horn of Africa From Colonialism to Terrorism Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£43.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd America the UN and Decolonisation
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£137.75
Taylor & Francis Eastern Christianity and the Cold War 194591
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£142.50
Taylor & Francis Ltd Superpower Rivalry and Conflict
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£137.75
