Uncertain Empire
American History and the Idea of the Cold War
Historians have long understood that the notion of the cold war is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union was a war that fell ambiguously short of war, an armed truce that produced considerable bloodshed. Yet scholars in the rapidly expanding field of Cold War studies have seldom paused to consider the conceptual and chronological foundations of the idea of the Cold War itself. In Uncertain Empire, a group of leading scholars takes up the challenge of making sense of the idea of the Cold War and its application to the writing of American history. They interrogate the concept from a…
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Weitere Autoren: Bell, Duncan (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-982613-1
- EAN: 9780199826131
- Produktnummer: 13999102
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'564 KB
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Joel Isaac is Lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Christ's College, and the author of Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn.Duncan Bell is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Christ's College, and the author of The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900.
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