During the early decades of the Cold War, the People's Republic of China remained outside much of mainstream international science. Nevertheless, Chinese scientists found alternative channels through which to communicate and interact with counterparts across the world, beyond simple East/West divides. By examining the international activities of elite Chinese scientists, Gordon...(展开全部)

During the early decades of the Cold War, the People's Republic of China remained outside much of mainstream international science. Nevertheless, Chinese scientists found alternative channels through which to communicate and interact with counterparts across the world, beyond simple East/West divides. By examining the international activities of elite Chinese scientists, Gordon...(展开全部)

World War Two left two compelling, indelible images that colored the decades to come: the immense force of the Soviet Union's Red Army and the horrific devastation wrought by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki. For the next half-century, the great powers prepared themselves for another, deadlier international conflagration...one that never happened. Politicians and strate...(展开全部)

约翰•刘易斯•加迪斯（JOHN LEWIS GADDIS），现为耶鲁大学罗伯特•A.拉韦特（Robert A Lovett）讲座教授，著名的冷战史学家和大战略研究家，曾被《纽约时报》称作“冷战史学泰斗”，2005年获美国“国家人文奖章”（National Humanit ies Medal）。著有《遏制战略》（Strategies of Containment）、《长和平》（The Long Peace）、The United States and the Origins of the Cold War、、We Now Know、The landscape of History、Surprise, Security, and the American Experience、George F. Kennan。 翟强 ，美国奥本大学蒙哥马利校区历史系教授...(展开全部)

In today's world of rapid advancements in science and technology, we need to scrutinize more than ever the historical forces that shape our perceptions of what these new possibilities can and cannot do for social progress. In Sputnik's Shadow provides a lens to do just that, by tracing the rise and fall of the President's Science Advisory Committee from its ascendance under Eis...(展开全部)

In today's world of rapid advancements in science and technology, we need to scrutinize more than ever the historical forces that shape our perceptions of what these new possibilities can and cannot do for social progress. In Sputnik's Shadow provides a lens to do just that, by tracing the rise and fall of the President's Science Advisory Committee from its ascendance under Eis...(展开全部)

作者：文安立（Odd Arne Westad） 挪威歷史學家，現居美國康乃迪克州紐黑文，主要研究冷戰史和當代東亞史。現為耶魯大學歷史和全球事務伊利胡（Elihu）講座教授。 代表作包括《躁動的帝國：從清帝國的普世主義，到中國的民族主義，一部250年的中國對外關係史》（Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750）、《緩和的衰落：卡特時代下的美國—蘇維埃關係》（The Fall of Détente: Soviet-American Relations During the Carter Years）、《決定性交會：中國內戰1945-1950》（Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1945-1950）、《全球冷戰：對第三世界的干預與我們時代的形成》（T...(展开全部)

'Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition, supra-nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly scholarship and trenchant analysis make The Cold War a book ofresounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines, TLS, Books of the Year As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and...(展开全部)

作者：文安立（Odd Arne Westad） 挪威歷史學家，現居美國康乃迪克州紐黑文，主要研究冷戰史和當代東亞史。現為耶魯大學歷史和全球事務伊利胡（Elihu）講座教授。 代表作包括《躁動的帝國：從清帝國的普世主義，到中國的民族主義，一部250年的中國對外關係史》（Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750）、《緩和的衰落：卡特時代下的美國—蘇維埃關係》（The Fall of Détente: Soviet-American Relations During the Carter Years）、《決定性交會：中國內戰1945-1950》（Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1945-1950）、《全球冷戰：對第三世界的干預與我們時代的形成》（T...(展开全部)

From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the world We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancro...(展开全部)