The Cambridge History of the Cold War 3 Volume Set

This three-volume series is a comprehensive, international history of the conflict that dominated world history in the twentieth century.

Melvyn P. Leffler (Edited by), Odd Arne Westad (Edited by)

9781107602328, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 26 January 2012

1976 pages
22.7 x 15.2 x 8.8 cm, 3.18 kg

'Among the volumes' greatest achievements two stand out: the first is the sheer range of contributors and topics which trace this long period in world history from its beginnings in the Second World War to the dismantling of the Soviet's Empire in the 1990s. The second is the overall balanced and sustained objectivity in a field in which it is all too easy to lessen one's historical work by taking sides.' Contemporary Review

The Cambridge History of the Cold War is a comprehensive, international history of the conflict that dominated world politics in the twentieth century. The three-volume series, written by leading international experts in the field, elucidates how the Cold War evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and socio-political environment of the two World Wars and the interwar era, and explains the global dynamics of the Cold War international system. It emphasises how the Cold War bequeathed conditions, challenges and conflicts that shape international affairs today. With discussions of demography and consumption, women and youth, science and technology, ethnicity and race, the volumes encompass the social, intellectual and economic history of the twentieth century, shedding new light on the evolution of the Cold War. Through its various geographical and national angles, the series signifies a transformation of the field from a national – primarily American – to a broader international approach.

Volume 1: 1. The Cold War and the international history of the twentieth century
2. Ideology and the origins of the Cold War, 1917–1962
3. The world economy and the Cold War in the mid-twentieth century
4. The emergence of an American grand strategy, 1945–1952
5. The Soviet Union and the world, 1944–1953
6. Britain and the Cold War
7. The division of Germany (1945–1949)
8. The Marshall Plan and the creation of the west
9. The Sovietization of eastern Europe, 1944–1953
10. The Cold War in the Balkans: from the Greek Civil War to Soviet-Yugoslav normalization
11. The birth of the People's Republic of China and the road to the Korean War
12. Japan, the United States, and the Cold War, 1945–1960
13. The Korean War
14. US national security policy from Eisenhower to Kennedy
15. Soviet foreign policy, 1953–1962
16. East-Central Europe from Stalin's death to the aftermath of the 1956 revolts
17. The Sino-Soviet Alliance and the Cold War in Asia, 1954–1962
18. Nuclear weapons and the escalation of the Cold War, 1945–1962
19. Culture and the Cold War in Europe
20. Cold War mobilization and domestic politics: the United States
21. Cold War mobilisation and domestic politics: the Soviet Union, 1945–1962
22. Decolonization, the global south, and the Cold War, 1919–1962
23. Oil, resources, and the Cold War, 1945–1962. Volume 2: 1. Grand strategies in the Cold War
2. Identity and the Cold War
3. Economic aspects of the Cold War, 1962–1975
4. The Cuban Missile Crisis
5. Nuclear competition in an era of stalemate, 1963–1975
6. US foreign policy from Kennedy to Johnson
7. Soviet foreign policy, 1962–1975
8. France, 'Gaulism', and the Cold War
9. European integration and the Cold War
10. Détente in Europe, 1962–1975
11. Eastern Europe: Stalinism to solidarity
12. Cold War and the transformation of the Mediterranean, 1960–1975
13. The Cold War in the Third World, 1963–1975
14. The Indochina Wars and the Cold War, 1945–1975
15. The Cold War in the Middle East from the Suez Crisis to the Camp David Accords
16. Cuba and the Cold War, 1959–1980
17. The Sino-Soviet split
18. Détente in the Nixon-Ford years, 1969–1976
19. Nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation during the Cold War
20. Intelligence in the Cold War
21. Reading, viewing and tuning-in to the Cold War
22. Counter-cultures: the rebellions against the Cold War order, 1965–1975
23. The structure of great power politics, 1963–1975
24. The Cold War and the social and economic history of the twentieth century. Volume 3: 1. The Cold War and the intellectual history of the late twentieth century
2. The world economy and the Cold War, 1970–1990
3. The rise and fall of Eurocommunism
4. The Cold War and Jimmy Carter
5. Soviet foreign policy from Détente to Gorbachev, 1975–1985
6. Islamism, the Iranian Revolution, and the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
7. The collapse of superpower détente, 1975–1980
8. Japan and the Cold War from 1960 to 1991
9. China and the Cold War after Mao
10. The Cold War in Central America, 1975–1991
11. The Cold War and Southern Africa, 1976–1990
12. The Gorbachev revolution and the end of the Cold War
13. US foreign policy from Reagan to Bush
14. Western Europe and the end of the Cold War, 1979–1989
15. The East European revolutions of 1989
16. The unification of Germany, 1985–1991
17. The collapse of the Soviet Union, 1990–1991
18. Science, technology and the Cold War
19. Transnational organizations and the Cold War
20. The Biosphere and the Cold War
21. The Cold War and human rights
22. The Cold War in the longue durée: global migration, public health, and population control
23. Consumer capitalism and the end of the Cold War
24. An 'incredibly swift transition': reflections on the end of the Cold War
25. The restructuring of the international system after the Cold War.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS], The Cold War [HBTW], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], History of the Americas [HBJK], General & world history [HBG]