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The Cold War

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

The Cold War

By Odd Arne Westad

5 Ratings • 4.6 of 5

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About the book

The definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War must be understood as a global ideological confrontation, with early roots in the Industrial Revolu...Show more

Cold wars and proxy conflicts

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ISBN

9780465054930

Publisher

INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US

Published year

2017

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1

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The Cold War

Format

Hardcover

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