Title : | The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations : America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991 | Material Type: | printed text | Authors: | Warren I. Cohen, Editor | Publisher: | Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press | Publication Date: | 2006 | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-521-38193-2 | General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-271)
Includes bibliographical index (p. 273-283) | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | Descriptors: | Diplomacy Foreign relations - United States United States - Russia relations
| Class number: | 327.73 | Abstract: | This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective. All of the major foreign policy issues, including the origins of the Soviet-American conflict; the extension of the confrontation to Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere on the periphery; wars in Korea and Vietnam; crises involving the Taiwan Straits, Berlin, and Cuba; the rise and fall of detente; imperial overreach; and the critical roles of Reagan and Gorbachev in the 1980s are carefully analysed and clearly explained. | Contents note: | The creation of a republican empire, 1776-1865 / Bradford Perkins; The American search for opportunity, 1865-1913 / Walter LaFeber; The globalizing of America, 1913-1945 / Akira Iriye; America in the age of Soviet power, 1945-1991; | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=19374 |
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