Rethinking The Cold War – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Susan Polgar
Rebel Queen

A real life Queen's Gambit, this captivating memoir tells the story of one of the most renowned women in chess history, Susan Polgar, taking on a sexist establishment and rewriting the rules of what women…

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Sergey Radchenko
To Run the World

What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko …

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Branko Milanovic
Visions of Inequality

Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key economists, from Quesnay to Kuznets. In their work and lives, we see how differentl…

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Susan Polgar
Rebel Queen

Born to a poor Jewish family in Cold War Budapest, Susan Polgar had the odds stacked against her-from having few resources, to growing up in a sexist culture rife with vicious anti¿Semitism. Yet her fathe…

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Edward Jones-Imhotep
The Unreliable Nation

An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and ma…

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Ned Richardson-Little,
The German Democratic Republic

The German Democratic Republic has come to stand as a symbol of communist tyranny, a source of Cold War nostalgia and socialist kitsch, and a failed alternative to the worst excesses of 21st century capit…

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J Michael Cole
The Taiwan Tinderbox

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world and overturned assumptions that large-scale conventional war was inconceivable in the twenty-first century. On the other side of the planet,…

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Sheila Fitzpatrick
Lost Souls

A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century's biggest refugee crisesWhen World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens w…

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Charlie English
The CIA Book Club

"A story as fascinating as it is undersung . . . a riveting account" (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) of the CIA's secret program to smuggle millions of books through the Iron C…

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Hanna Lucinda Smith
Hinterlands

Why have Russian resorts sprung up in seaside towns in Northern Cyprus? What can Sarajevo's local politics tell us about Trump, Putin, and Erdogan? How has the Syrian revolution turned the state into a ne…

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Stuart A Reid
The Lumumba Plot

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller---about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of…

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Between East and South

During the Cold War, alternative globalization projects were underway: socialist Eastern Europe and left-leaning countries in the Third World maintained close economic relations. The two worlds traded and…

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J J Valdés
Besieged Beachhead

On New Year's Day 1959, Fidel Castro's revolutionary movement overthrew the ruling regime in Cuba, bringing the Cold War to the United States' doorstep and setting the island nation and its superpower nei…

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Wen-Chin Chang
Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang …

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Moritz Brake
The Contemporary German Navy as an Instrument of Foreign Policy

Since the Cold War and beyond the Zeitenwende , Germany has increasingly come to rely on its navy as an instrument of foreign policy. The German Navy supports comprehensive maritime security and ocean gov…

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Wen-Chin Chang
Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang …

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Ryosuke Ohashi,
The Kyoto School and the Japanese Navy

The Japanese philosopher Ryosuke Ohashi offers a rare, historical-grounded perspective about what transpired in the secret meetings of wartime intellectuals at the Kyoto University.In the first English tr…

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Edward Luce
Zbig

An intimate and perceptive biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski - one of America's greatest and most influential geopolitical thinkers.

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Francis MacDonnell
Policing Show Business

In Policing Show Business, Francis MacDonnell explores the starring role played by J. Edgar Hoover in the development of the Hollywood blacklist in the 1940s and 1950s. As director of the FBI, Hoover pour…

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Susan McCall Perlman
Contesting France

Contesting France tells the story of how a transnational web of French sources used their exchanges with US intelligence to shape American policy towards France in the early Cold War. A much-needed additi…

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