The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and t...(展开全部)

《全球冷战》令人印象深刻的地方就是作者驾驭多边档案史料的功底。在书中，文安立不但使用了公开出版的史料集、回忆录、博士论文及其他二手资料，而且触摸了大量为世人所不了解的多边档案，其中了包括了俄罗斯（苏联）、中国、塞尔维亚和黑山、意大利、德国、美国和南非等数国，涉及了多种所在国语言。这充分体现了 作者高超的语言使用能力和史料梳理技艺，令人赞叹。在充分的事实基础上，作者为我们详细地描述了美苏两国干涉第三世界国家的全景史画，并突出了二者彼此相异的意识形态诉求和策略手段。而且，他将笔触一直延伸至21世纪初的当代世界，顺流直下，将干涉史的影响与当代国际热点问题紧密、妥当地联系在一起，显现了其炽热的现实关怀热情。

By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution to these problems, the ideals of the Enlightenment, including emancipation and equality, had instead created them. The historian of politic...(展开全部)

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how developme...(展开全部)

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession―but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the...(展开全部)

The "rivetingly told" (Times Literary Supplement) story of the CIA's Cold War cultural operations, short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders presents for the first time the shocking evidence that the CIA infiltrated every niche of the cultural sphere during the postwar years. In a "hammer-blow of a book" (The Spectator, Lo...(展开全部)

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession―but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the...(展开全部)

In this magisterial work, Covell Meyskens draws on the vast range of material now available in China on the 'Third Front,' enriched with his own interviews, to bring the full scope of this once top-secret program into focus for the first time ever. Meyskens provides an indelible portrait of the Third Front, tying together international tensions, domestic politics, and life at t...(展开全部)

Awards and Recognition Shortlisted for the MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association Winner of the MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year How did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Cold War, Peter Kalliney explores the various ways that rival states used cu...(展开全部)

Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union? In this comprehensive guide to the most widespread conflict in contemporary history, Vladislav Zubok traces the origins of the Cold War in post-war Europe, through the tumultuous d...(展开全部)