The decade from 1981 through 1991 saw the remarkable transition from a renewed U.S. confrontation with the Soviet Union to the end of communist rule and the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself. This turning point is now history, history that is the foundation for what has bee…
"Asia represented the 'hottest' theatre of the Cold War, with several declared wars and undeclared wars always in progress and the periodic threat of the use of nuclear weapons." "In this volume, a range of clandestine activities from intelligence and propaganda to special opera…
"Asia represented the 'hottest' theatre of the Cold War, with several declared wars and undeclared wars always in progress and the periodic threat of the use of nuclear weapons." "In this volume, a range of clandestine activities from intelligence and propaganda to special opera…
This book guides the reader through recent and established theories as well as introducing a number of previously neglected themes, films and texts. It is divided into two parts: Cultural Themes and Cultural Forms.
This book guides the reader through recent and established theories as well as introducing a number of previously neglected themes, films and texts. It is divided into two parts: Cultural Themes and Cultural Forms.
A look at newly opened Russian archives reveals just how close we got to nuclear Armageddon during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
A look at newly opened Russian archives reveals just how close we got to nuclear Armageddon during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
A look at newly opened Russian archives reveals just how close we got to nuclear Armageddon during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
"David Caute's wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history. In the United States and Western Europe the political novel flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, the crisis years of economic de…
"John F. Kennedy owed his victorious bid for the presidency - as well as his success in implementing new military and economic policies while in office - largely to his ability to exploit fears of an alleged Soviet strategic superiority, famously known as the "missile gap." Capi…
"John F. Kennedy owed his victorious bid for the presidency - as well as his success in implementing new military and economic policies while in office - largely to his ability to exploit fears of an alleged Soviet strategic superiority, famously known as the "missile gap." Capi…
The phrase 'Cold War' was coined by George Orwell in 1945 to describe the impact of the atomic bomb on world politics: 'We may be heading not for a general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.' The Soviet Union, he wrote, was 'at once …
"In what may be the best analysis of how international relations affected any domestic issue, Mary Dudziak interprets postwar civil rights as a Cold War feature. She argues that the Cold War helped facilitate key social reforms, including desegregation. Civil rights activists ga…
"In what may be the best analysis of how international relations affected any domestic issue, Mary Dudziak interprets postwar civil rights as a Cold War feature. She argues that the Cold War helped facilitate key social reforms, including desegregation. Civil rights activists ga…
What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next Silicon Valle…
What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next Silicon Valle…
What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become ""the next Silicon Vall…
