The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad
The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad
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The Cold War
A World History

Author: Odd Arne Westad

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Unabridged: 22 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/05/2017

Synopsis

In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe. We traditionally think of the Cold War as a post-World War II diplomatic and military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Westad argues that the conflict must be understood as a global ideological confrontation with roots in the industrial revolution and with continuing implications for the world today. The Cold War may have begun on the perimeters of Europe but it had its largest impacts in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Expanding our understanding of the Cold War both geographically and chronologically, Westad offers the definitive new history of an ongoing battle.

About Odd Arne Westad

Odd Arne Westad is the S. T. Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University. The author and editor of eleven books, Westad lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on June 11, 2023

This book covers a broad range of topics while still managing to narrate the entire Cold War, but falls short for me due to the quality of writing. I've been looking for a balanced, in-depth single volume overview of the Cold War that has some academic rigor. First, I read John Lewis Gaddis' "The Co......more

Goodreads review by Nils on January 04, 2018

Simply the best single volume political history of the Cold War. But for its 600+p length, it would be a shoo-in to replace Gaddis as the standard text for classroom use, as it is in all ways a superior book. Organized in part chronologically but mainly geographically, it is really a global history......more

Goodreads review by Greg on June 24, 2018

Greg Cusack June 24, 2018 The Cold war – a period that is usually dated from 1946 (or 1947) until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 – continues to influence us today. Indeed, with renewed tensions between Russia and the West and the rise to great power status of modern China, it is clear th......more

Goodreads review by Yair on December 20, 2021

Ah, la Guerra Fría!!! … ese conflicto que pareciera fácil de definir pero que entre más se estudia más complicado y enrevesado se torna, incluso más que las conflagraciones directas. Para quienes nacimos antes de la década de los 90 puede parecer incluso una colisión lo bastante vívida en nuestra me......more

Goodreads review by Pieter on April 03, 2024

Degelijk overzicht van de Koude Oorlog in al zijn facetten. Ideaal in combinatie met de nieuwe Netflixserie 'Turning Point: the Bomb and the Cold War'.......more

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