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The Cambridge history of the Cold War. Volume 1, Origins, 1945-1962

Title
The Cambridge history of the Cold War. Volume 1, Origins, 1945-1962 [electronic resource] / edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad.
ISBN
9780511862298 (electronic bk.)
9780521837194 (hardback)
0511862296 (electronic bk.)
9781139056113 (ebook)
1139056115 (ebook)
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 551 pages) : digital, PDF file.
Notes
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 10, 2010).
Summary
Here, leading scholars examine the origins, causes and early years of the Cold War worldwide, from America, the USSR and Great Britain to Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Asia. Chapters show how the conflict evolved from the ideological, economic, and socio-political environment of the two world wars and the interwar period.
Variant and related titles
History of the Cold War.
Origins, 1945-1962.
Other formats
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 04, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The Cold War and the international history of the twentieth century / Odd Arne Westad
Ideology and the origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962 / David C. Engerman
The world economy and the Cold War in the middle of the twentieth century / Charles S. Maier
The emergence of an American grand strategy, 1945-1952 / Melvyn P. Leffler
The Soviet Union and the world, 1944-1953 / Vladimir O. Pechatnov
Britain and the Cold War, 1945-1955 / Anne Deighton
The division of Germany, 1945-1949 / Hans-Peter Schwarz
The Marshall Plan and the creation of the West / William I. Hitchcock
The Sovietization of Eastern Europe, 1944-1953 / Norman Naimark
The Cold War in the Balkans, 1945-1956 / Svetozar Rajak
The birth of the People's Republic of China and the road to the Korean War / Niu Jun
Japan, the United States, and the Cold War, 1945-1960 / Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu
The Korean War / William Stueck
US national security policy from Eisenhower to Kennedy / Robert J. Mcmahon
Soviet foreign policy, 1953-1962 / Vojtech Mastny
East Central Europe, 1953-1956 / Csaba Békés
The Sino-Soviet alliance and the Cold War in Asia, 1954-1962 / Shu Guang Zhang
Nuclear weapons and the escalation of the Cold War, 1945-1962 / David Holloway
Culture and the Cold War in Europe / Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
Cold War mobilization and domestic politics: the United States / Laura Mcenaney
Cold War mobilisation and domestic politics: the Soviet Union / David Priestland
Decolonization, the global South, and the Cold War, 1919-1962 / Mark Philip Bradley
Oil, resources, and the Cold War, 1945-1962 / David S. Painter.
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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