America In The Cold War: Twenty Years Of Revolutions And Response, 1947-1967
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A landmark work in Cold War historiography, America in the Cold War: Twenty Years of Revolutions and Response, 1947-1967 presents a meticulously curated anthology that chronicles two pivotal decades of American foreign policy and global ideological conflict. Edited by Walter LaFeber of Cornell University and part of the Problems in American History series, the volume assembles primary sources and critical essays that illuminate the United States' responses to revolutionary movements across the globe. LaFeber argues with characteristic incisiveness that American Cold War strategy was shaped not merely by anti-communist ideology, but by deeper economic and geopolitical imperatives that drove policy decisions from the Truman Doctrine through the escalation in Vietnam. The collection presents readers with the defining confrontations, crises, and diplomatic manoeuvres of the era — from Berlin to Korea to Cuba — offering a rigorous academic framework for understanding the transformative tensions of the postwar world. An essential resource for students and scholars of American history, it remains a compelling analytical lens through which to examine the superpower rivalry that defined the twentieth century.
Author: Walter Lafeber
Format: Paperback
Genre: Cold war & espionage
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - previous owner.
A landmark work in Cold War historiography, America in the Cold War: Twenty Years of Revolutions and Response, 1947-1967 presents a meticulously curated anthology that chronicles two pivotal decades of American foreign policy and global ideological conflict. Edited by Walter LaFeber of Cornell University and part of the Problems in American History series, the volume assembles primary sources and critical essays that illuminate the United States' responses to revolutionary movements across the globe. LaFeber argues with characteristic incisiveness that American Cold War strategy was shaped not merely by anti-communist ideology, but by deeper economic and geopolitical imperatives that drove policy decisions from the Truman Doctrine through the escalation in Vietnam. The collection presents readers with the defining confrontations, crises, and diplomatic manoeuvres of the era — from Berlin to Korea to Cuba — offering a rigorous academic framework for understanding the transformative tensions of the postwar world. An essential resource for students and scholars of American history, it remains a compelling analytical lens through which to examine the superpower rivalry that defined the twentieth century.