The Cold War

Zusatztext This is an excellent overview of the Cold War. Informationen zum Autor John Lamberton Harper is Professor of American Foreign Policy and European Studies at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of America and the Reconstruction of Italy (1986), winner of the Marraro prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies, American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson (1994), winner of the Ferrell prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy (2004). He is a contributing editor of Survival, and a member of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome. Klappentext A concise, briskly-written account of the Cold War, drawing on the latest archival evidence and scholarly research. It includes a discussion of Cold War historiography and in the introductory section frames the main account by examining some of the subject's primary documents. Zusammenfassung A concise, briskly-written account of the Cold War, drawing on the latest archival evidence and scholarly research. It includes a discussion of Cold War historiography and in the introductory section frames the main account by examining some of the subject's primary documents.

Product details

• Authors: John Lamberton Harper, John Lamberton (Professor of American Foreign Policy and European Studies Harper, Harper John Lamberton
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.2011
• EAN: 9780199237005
• ISBN: 978-0-19-923700-5
• No. of pages: 335
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Oxford Histories; Oxford Histories
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / World, International Relations, General & world history, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, General and world history, The Cold War, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General