The Cold War

by Mike Sewell

Overview

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The Cold War was an economic, ideological and political confrontation. There was no single cause, no single driving force and no single factor that brought it to an end. In this incisive and thought-provoking book, Mike Sewell examines the complex historiography surrounding the Cold War as well as the events and issues themselves. Topics include: the origins of the Cold War, the globalisation of the War culminating in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the period of detente which followed, and the end of the Cold War in the 1980s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521798082
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/11/2002
Series:	Cambridge Perspectives in History
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.43(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Origins of the Cold War to 1947; 2. The Cold War takes shape, 1947–51; 3. Brinkmanship, 1951–63; 4. The Cuban Missile Crisis, hinge of the Cold War, 1962; 5. Detente, 1963–75; 6. Renewed confrontation, 1975–85; 7. The end of the Cold War; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.