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Cold War: Basic Books

Autor Odd Arne Westad
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2019

Recomandăm acest volum ca o lucrare de referință fundamentală pentru nivelul de licență și master în istorie sau relații internaționale. The Cold War nu este doar o cronică a tensiunilor dintre Washington și Moscova, ci o reconstrucție ambițioasă a modului în care acest conflict a remodelat întreaga lume. Observăm cum Odd Arne Westad reușește să ofere distanța istorică necesară pentru a analiza perioada post-1945 ca pe un ecosistem global complex, în care nicio regiune nu a rămas neutră.

Apreciem în mod deosebit structura narativă care refuză să se limiteze la teatrele de operațiuni europene. Autorul demonstrează că, pentru milioane de oameni din locuri precum Angola sau Coreea, acest război nu a fost deloc „rece”, ci marcat de o violență constantă și de eșecuri morale profunde. Stilul este precis și academic, însă păstrează o claritate care face ca cele peste 700 de pagini să fie esențiale pentru înțelegerea prezentului politic. Această lucrare acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum A Global History of the Cold War, 1945-1991 de Philip Jenkins, dar cu o abordare mult mai densă și o profunzime a analizei de arhivă care o transformă într-un standard al istoriografiei contemporane.

În contextul operei sale, The Cold War reprezintă punctul culminant al cercetărilor începute în The Global Cold War, premiată cu Bancroft Prize. Dacă în lucrările anterioare, precum The Great Transformation, Westad se concentra pe tranzițiile specifice ale Chinei, aici el integrează acele lecții într-o sinteză totală, oferind o perspectivă mult mai largă asupra modului în care ideologiile celor două superputeri au cerut o loialitate absolută la scară planetară.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781541674097
ISBN-10: 154167409X
Pagini: 720
Dimensiuni: 151 x 233 x 53 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Basic Books
Seria Basic Books


De ce să citești această carte

Această carte se adresează studenților la istorie și științe politice, dar și cititorilor pasionați de geopolitică. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere nuanțată a modului în care conflictele actuale își au rădăcinile în alianțele forțate ale secolului XX. Este o resursă indispensabilă pentru oricine dorește să treacă dincolo de clișeele cinematografice despre spionaj și să înțeleagă mecanismele puterii globale care au divizat Europa și au destabilizat continente întregi timp de patru decenii.


Despre autor

Odd Arne Westad este profesor de Istorie Internațională la London School of Economics și un expert recunoscut la nivel mondial în istoria Războiului Rece și a Asiei de Est. Cariera sa este marcată de distincții prestigioase, inclusiv premiul Bancroft pentru The Global Cold War. Expertiza sa vastă este reflectată și în calitatea de co-editor pentru The Penguin History of the World, una dintre cele mai apreciate sinteze de istorie universală. Westad a publicat lucrări fundamentale despre Războiul Civil Chinez și alianța sino-sovietică, utilizând surse de arhivă multilingve pentru a oferi perspective noi asupra politicii globale.


Descriere scurtă

The definitive history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world

The Cold War began on the perimeters of Europe, but it had its deepest reverberations in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, where every community had to choose sides. Those choices continue to define economies and regimes across the world. Stunning in breadth and revelatory in perspective, The Cold War, by prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad, expands our understanding of the conflict both geographically and chronologically, and offers a new understanding of how today's world was created.




"An epic account."

-Wall Street Journal



"An account of the Cold War that is truly global in its scope... a wise and observant history."

-New Republic



"An ambitious study, perspicacious and panoramic in scope."

-Financial Times, Best Books of 2017




Notă biografică

Odd Arne Westad is the S. T. Lee professor of US-Asia relations at Harvard University and author and editor of eleven books, including The Global Cold War, recipient of the Bancroft Prize, and Restless Empire, recipient of the Asia Society book award. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Recenzii

"[An] epic account...One reason Mr. Westad'snarrative is so strong is its use of fresh archival sources from across theglobe...How Big Was the Cold War? is easy to answer: It was huge, as this bookdemonstrates, not only because of the perilous stakes but also because of thesize of the two main actors. How Deep Was the Cold War? is also easy to answer,and Mr. Westad does that so very well, showing how it reached into so manyplaces in the world that were a long way from the Berlin Wall."—Wall Street Journal
"[A] big, serious, and thoroughly intelligentstud[y] of the cold war."—New York Review of Books
"An account of the Cold War that is trulyglobal in its scope... a wise and observant history... It also arrives at amoment when we must grasp the dynamics of the Cold War if we want to understandsome of today's most urgent developments, from North Korea's acquisition oflong-range nuclear missiles to the rise of socialist movements in Westerndemocracies."—New Republic
"Rich with details drawn from archivalresearch and interviews with politicians, soldiers, scientists and others wholived through the cold war.... Westad, a specialist on China as well as on thecold war, adds a valuable dimension with chapters on Asian countries and LatinAmerica.... [An] ambitious study, perspicacious and panoramic in scope."—Financial Times, Best Books of 2017
"Today, western attempts to contain radicalIslamism continue an us-and-them mentality. Angry Muslims decry the perceiveddepredations of US imperialism and the infidel free market; the threat posed bysuicide bombers makes the old east-west rivalries look almost manageable bycomparison. Westad's huge, single-volume history is the beginning of wisdom inthese things."—Guardian
"[A] riveting historical compendium."—Independent
"A sweeping study.... In astute, thematicchapters, Bancroft Award-winning historian Westad offers an excellent sense ofthe ideological conflicts fulminating since the late 19th century that formedthe crux of the Cold War.... This is an enormous story, and the author tacklesit with admirable clarity and elegance.... A tremendous and timely historylesson for our age."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"The Cold Warevinces a lifetime of research and thought on the subject. Compelling ideas andvaluable insights appear frequently."—National Interest
"In many ways, Westad has long argued, theCold War made the world what it is today. His latest book is an eloquent andenjoyable defense of that proposition."—Foreign Policy
"A clear and well-written summary of a globalconflict... an impressive book."—The Times
"Westad argues that the Cold War made theworld what it is today. Reading this fine history, it's difficult to disagree withhim. This is one of the best histories ever written on the Cold War."—Omnivoracious
"This significant history is told with verveand spirit... An essential book for all collections and one of the best writtenso far on the Cold War."—Library Journal
"[Westad] ably synthesizes contemporaryscholarship to produce an accessible narrative that provides a freshperspective on the conflict's pervasive global influence... an impressive featthat will be appreciated by scholars, students, and general readers."—Publishers Weekly
"Westad balances the grim nature of his studywith sometimes thrilling insights and constantly lively, almost conversationalprose. Even in a book-market glutted with Russia-centered histories, this onestands out."—Open Letters Monthly
"Rather than offering a straightforwardhistorical overview, The Cold War delves much deeper, examining thephilosophies underpinning the conflicting ideologies and the influence thesystems had on their societies and economies. These complex ideas are writtenwith great clarity and confidence, giving readers an exciting prose that onlyoccasionally feels turgid through detail.... The book is a sobering opportunityto allow the recent history to give perspective to our own times and the dangerousideas that persist."—Entertainment Focus
"[A] fast-paced narrative peppered withdelightful snippets from a broad range of sources... this volume should sit onthe bookshelf of every home as a constant reminder of how stupidity, ignoranceand arrogance almost brought the world to annihilation. With thepersonification of all three traits now squatting in the White House, this bookhas real and current value."—South China Morning Post
"Arne Westad has produced a grand narrativeof the Cold War. Defining it as a struggle between capitalism and socialism aswell as a bipolar international system, he brilliantly illustrates itsideological, geopolitical, technological, and economic dimensions. Westad, theworld's foremost scholar of the Cold War, once again dazzles readers with thescope and depth of his analysis."—Melvyn P. Leffler, Professor of American History, University of Virginia
"Thanks to Arne Westad, we can no longerthink of the Cold War as a two-player game. Westad gives us a new history ofthe rivalry between capitalism and communism, tracing its origins back to the1890s and showing that it had a kind of afterlife beyond the 1990s. No one canmatch his ability to illuminate the linkages between the Washington-Moscowrivalry that was the Cold War's fissile core and the multiple "hot"wars that, on the periphery, constituted the Third World's War."—Niall Ferguson, Hoover Institution, Stanford, and author of Kissinger, 1923-1968
"Arne Westad provides a powerful analysis ofwhy the Cold War occurred, what it meant, and why it still matters. He isespecially strong in elucidating the ideas of perfection that drove veryimperfect, often brutal, leaders. Westad's book links the Cold War toglobalization, recent wars in the Middle East, and American rivalries withRussia and China. This is a book that everyone interested in politics andforeign policy should read. It is a riveting story, told by one of the foremostworld historians."—Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency
"For generations, the Cold War was context,the inescapable setting of political life. This history sets the Cold Waritself in context, within the greater landscape of world history, deeplyunderstood, and masterfully presented. It is a powerful synthesis by one of ourgreat historians."—Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands