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- Rethinking the Cold War
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Temple University Press
summary
The end of the Cold War should have been an occasion to reassess its origins, history, significance, and consequences. Yet most commentators have restated positions already developed during the Cold War. They have taken the break-up of the Soviet Union, the shift toward capitalism and electoral politics in Eastern Europe and countries formerly in the USSR as evidence of a moral and political victory for the United States that needs no further elaboration.
This collection of essays offers a more complex and nuanced analysis of Cold War history. It challenges the prevailing perspective, which editor Allen Hunter terms "vindicationism." Writing from different disciplinary and conceptual vantage points, the contributors to the collection invite a rethinking of what the Cold War was, how fully it defined the decades after World War II, what forces sustained it, and what forces led to its demise. By exploring a wide range of central themes of the era, Rethinking the Cold War widens the discussion of the Cold War's place in post-war history and intellectual life.
This collection of essays offers a more complex and nuanced analysis of Cold War history. It challenges the prevailing perspective, which editor Allen Hunter terms "vindicationism." Writing from different disciplinary and conceptual vantage points, the contributors to the collection invite a rethinking of what the Cold War was, how fully it defined the decades after World War II, what forces sustained it, and what forces led to its demise. By exploring a wide range of central themes of the era, Rethinking the Cold War widens the discussion of the Cold War's place in post-war history and intellectual life.
Table of Contents
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- Part I: Creating the Cold War
- Part II: Decentering the Cold War: looking South
- 6. Castro in Harlem: A Cold War Watershed
- pp. 133-154
- Part III: Explaining the End of the Cold War
- Part IV: Disciplined Knowledge and Alternative Visions
- 13. Hannah Arendt as Dissenting Intellectual
- pp. 271-288
- About the Contributors
- pp. 307-309
Additional Information
ISBN
9781439904565
Related ISBN(s)
9781566395618, 9781566395625
MARC Record
OCLC
646066417
Pages
309
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1997