The Cold War A Post-Cold War History
The Cold War A Post-Cold War History
- ISBN 13:
9781118848401
- ISBN 10:
1118848403
- Edition: 3rd
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 02/16/2016
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
List Price $33.01 Save
TERM | PRICE | DUE |
---|---|---|
Free Shipping Both Ways
Highlight/Take Notes Like You Own It
Purchase/Extend Before Due Date
List Price $33.01 Save $0.33
Usually Ships in 3-4 Business Days
We Buy This Book Back!
Free Shipping On Every Order
Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Extend or Purchase Your Rental at Any Time
Need to keep your rental past your due date? At any time before your due date you can extend or purchase your rental through your account.
Summary
- Thoroughly updated in light of new scholarship, including revised sections on President Nixons policies in Vietnam and President Reagans approach to U.S.-Soviet relations
- Features six all new counterparts sections that juxtapose important historical figures to illustrate the contrasting viewpoints that characterized the Cold War
- Argues that the success of Western capitalism during the Cold War laid the groundwork for the economic globalization and political democratization that have defined the 21st century
- Includes extended coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear age thus far