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)

Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text focuses on U.S./Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. The thesis allows for use of anecdote and quotation to exemplify the policies.

◆著者简介◆—————————————————————— 沃尔特•拉费伯尔 当代美国著名历史学家。出生于美国印第安纳州，先后获斯坦福大学硕士、威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校博士。1968年以来在康奈尔大学任历史学讲座教授。主要著作有：《美国的时代：1750年以来美国对外政策的国内和国外方面》，《不可避免的革命：美国在中美洲》，《巴拿马运河：历史视野中的危机》，《新帝国：对美国扩张的解释，1865-1998》，《迈克尔•乔丹和新全球资本主义》，《死亡的赌注：林登•约翰逊、越南和1968年大选》。他还是《剑桥美国对外关系史》第2卷《美国对机会的寻求》（有中译本）的作者。他所著《冲突：历史上的美日关系》（1997年）获得班克罗夫特奖和霍利奖。 ◆译者简介◆—————————————————————— 牛可 北京大学历史学系 副教授 翟韬 北京大学历史学系 博...(展开全部)

Using extensive materials from both published and private sources, this concise text focuses on United States-Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War. It explores how the Cold War was shaped by domestic events in both the U.S. and the Soviet Union and presents a variety of other points of view on the conflict - Chinese, Latin American, European, ...(展开全部)

作者簡介 麥可．曼德爾邦（Michael Mandelbaum） 曼德爾邦是約翰霍普金斯大學高級國際研究學院教授，也曾任教於哈佛大學、哥倫比亞大學，專攻美國外交政策。他擔任華盛頓近東政策研究所顧問，該所贊助中東政策研究和相關議題的公共討論。曼德爾邦畢業於耶魯大學，獲劍橋 大學國王學院碩士，並在哈佛大學完成博士學位。他著有十六本書，包括《征服世界的觀念》（The Ideas That Conquered the World）、《節約的超級強權》（The Frugal Superpower），以及與湯瑪斯．佛里曼合著的《我們曾經輝煌：美國在新世界生存的關鍵》（That Used To Be Us）。 譯者簡介 林添貴 國立台灣大學畢業，歷任企業高階主管及新聞媒體資深編輯人。

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)

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)