Cold War Crucible - The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World

Informationen zum Autor Masuda Hajimu is Assistant Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. Klappentext After World War II, the major powers faced social upheaval at home and anticolonial wars around the globe. Alarmed by conflict in Korea that could change U.S.¿Soviet relations from chilly to nuclear, ordinary people and policymakers created a fantasy of a bipolar Cold War world in which global and domestic order was paramount, Masuda Hajimu shows. Zusammenfassung After World War II, the major powers faced social upheaval at home and anticolonial wars around the globe. Alarmed by conflict in Korea that could change U.S.–Soviet relations from chilly to nuclear, ordinary people and policymakers created a fantasy of a bipolar Cold War world in which global and domestic order was paramount, Masuda Hajimu shows.

Product details

• Authors: Hajimu Masuda
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2015
• EAN: 9780674598478
• ISBN: 978-0-674-59847-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Korea, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Social History, military history, South Korea, c 1950 to c 1959, Modern warfare, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Specific wars and campaigns, The Cold War, North Korea, Korean War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Korean War