Small wars, far away places : the genesis of the modern world, 1945-65
Michael Burleigh
Bok · Engelsk · 2014
| Omfang | 588 sider : kart
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| Utgave | First paperback edition
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| Opplysninger | Først utgitt: London: Macmillan, 2013. - Introduction: From the Halls of Montezuma to the Green Zone of Baghdad -- Japan opens Pandora's Box -- Harry Truman's world -- Arab nationalism, Jewish homeland -- Some more victorious than others -- 'Police Action' : Korea -- 'Emergency': Malaya -- By Huk or by crook: The Philippines -- Parachute the escargot: Indochina -- Sometimes special relationship -- Hungary and Suez -- With us or against us: the Sub-Continent -- Losing by winning: Algeria -- Terror and counter-terror: Kenya -- The Cold War comes to Africa -- Backyard blues: Cuba -- To the brink: the Missile Crisis -- Overreach: Vietnam -- Watershed of the American Century -- Epilogue: Legacies.. - "The collapse of Western colonial empires in the twenty years after the Second World War led to a series of vicious struggles for power - in Africa, Asia and the Middle EAst - whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's brilliant analytic skills and clear eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those conflicts. He takes on a historical journey from Algeria to Cuba, from Malaysia to Palestine, and from Kenya to Vietnam, and, in so doing, he reframes mid-twentieth-century history by forcing us to look away from the Cold War to the hot wars that continue to afflict us."
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| Emner | History, Modern
World politics postkolonialisme kalde krigen krig verdenspolitikk etterkrigstiden 1950-tallet 1960-tallet historie |
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| ISBN | 9780330529488
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