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Informationen zum Autor Fraser J. Harbutt is Professor of History at Emory University. After a decade of law practice in London and Auckland, he received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and later taught diplomatic, political, and legal history variously at the University of California Los Angeles, Smith College, and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War (1986), which co-won the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Bernath Prize, and of The Cold War Era (2002). He has also published chapters in several edited volumes and many articles in such journals as Diplomatic History, Political Science Quarterly, and International History Review. Klappentext This book argues that the Yalta conference was a pivotal moment that signaled a shift from a pre-existing 'Europe/America' framework to an 'East/West' conception in 1945. Zusammenfassung This book examines Allied diplomacy from 1941 to 1946! challenging Americocentric views and highlighting the significance of Europe's diplomatic role. Harbutt argues that the Yalta conference of February 1945 was a pivotal moment that signaled a shift from a pre-existing 'Europe/America' framework to the 'East/West' conception that led to the Cold War. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The confusions of Yalta; 2. The two arenas: Europe and America; 3. The persistence of Europe, 1942-3; 4. The making of the Moscow order; 5. Consolidation; 6. Roosevelt's America: a world apart; 7. The Yalta crossroad; 8. Aftermath; 9. Reflections.
