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Post-war history (1945- )

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  • The Cold Warby John Lewis Gaddis

    Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 13.99

    The ?dean of Cold War historians? ( The New York Times ) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why ?from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the barely averted holocaust of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reagan and Gorbachev. Brilliant, accessible, almost Shakespearean in its drama, The Cold War stands as a triumphant summation of the era that, more than any other, shaped our own. more...

  • Britain and European Integration since 1945by David Gowland; Arthur Turner; Alex Wright

    Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 49.95

    This book provides both a comprehensive introduction and a perceptive examination of Britain’s relations with the European Community and the European Union since 1945, combining an historical account with political analysis to illustrate the changing and multifaceted nature of British and European politics. more...

  • The Marshall Planby Michael J. Hogan

    Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 37.00

    Hogan shows how The Marshall Plan was more than an effort to put American aid behind the economic reconstruction of Europe. more...

  • States and Nationalism in Europe Since 1945by Malcolm Anderson

    Routledge 2000; US$ 28.95

    Examines the ceaseless controversies surrounding the ideas of the nation and nationalism, and shows that they are far from dead in twenty-first century Europe. more...

  • Understanding Post-War British Societyby James Obelkevich; Peter Catterall

    Routledge 1994; US$ 57.95

    Brings together the perspectives of leading sociologists and social historians to understand the shaping of British society. An illuminating Bnd comprehensive account of post-war British History. more...

  • Politics of Apolitical Cultureby Giles Scott-Smith

    Routledge 2001; US$ 160.00

    This book analyses a key episode in the cultural Cold War - the formation of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. This study combines archival research, cultural history and the theory of Gramscian political economy. more...

  • Cold Warby David Painter

    Routledge 1999; US$ 29.95

    The Cold War dominated international relations for forty-five years and hardly any part of the world escaped its influence. David Painter provides a compact and analytical study that examines its origins, course and end. more...

  • Deliver Us From Evilby William Shawcross

    Simon & Schuster 2002; US$ 12.99

    Reporting from war zones around the globe, acclaimed journalist William Shawcross gives us an unforgettable portrait of a dangerous world and of the brave men and women, ordinary and extraordinary, who risk their lives to make and keep the peace. The end of the Cold War was followed by a decade of regional and ethnic wars, massacres and forced exiles, and by constant calls for America to lead the international community as chief peace-keeper. The efforts of that community -- identified with the United Nations but often dominated by the world's wealthy nations -- have had mixed results. In Africa, the West is accused of indifference or too little, too late. In Cambodia, the UN presides over free elections, but the results are overridden.... more...

  • Never Learn to Typeby Margaret Joan Anstee

    John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2005; US$ 16.95

    A fascinating account of a remarkable life that took the author, through hard work and determination, from rural England to the highest ranks of the United Nations Dame Margaret Anstee was born in the 1920s to a poor family in rural Essex. With the support of her parents and through her own determination, she graduated from Cambridge with first class honours, and entered the Foreign Office where she worked with the spy Donald Maclean shortly before his defection with Guy Burgess. Her career here ended as was customary at the time, when she married a diplomat and was posted to Singapore. As the marriage began to fail Margaret accepted a job at the United Nations in order to earn her fare back to England. It was the start of a career that... more...

  • Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945-51by Alan S. Milward

    Routledge 1987; US$ 43.95

    `This is an indispensable book for anyone who wishes to be able to discuss intelligently the reshaping of Europe after the war.' From the Times Higher Education Supplement more...