"This book brings together recent research on the end of the Cold War in the Third World and engages with ongoing debates about regional conflicts, the role of great powers in the developing world, and the role of international actors in conflict resolution. Most of the recent s…
História da formação do mundo atual. Apresenta as transformações ocorridas no Século XX: as guerras mundiais, as revoluções burguesas, as revoluções socialistas e fascismos, crise e reconstrução do liberalismo, proposta do Estado de bem-estar social, descolonização e lutas de li…
"The last good neighbor tells the story of the Cold War in Mexico from a perspective that is simultaneously local, regional, and global. Eric Zolov shows how the strategic and discursive framework of the "Good Neighbor" (FDR's foreign policy of non-intervention and friendly rela…
"Featuring first hand accounts by international politicians and diplomats along with analyses by leading scholars, this unique collection of essays provides insights from multiple perspectives to foster better understanding of international relations during and after the Cold Wa…
A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago, this illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of "rocket scientist" Wernher von Braun as its narrative path throug…
DEAN ACHESON is best remembered as President Harry Truman's powerful secretary of state, the American father of NATO, and a major architect of U.S. foreign policy in the decade following the Second World War. But Acheson also played a major role in politics and foreign affairs a…
DEAN ACHESON is best remembered as President Harry Truman's powerful secretary of state, the American father of NATO, and a major architect of U.S. foreign policy in the decade following the Second World War. But Acheson also played a major role in politics and foreign affairs a…
