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The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $17.53A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood on the brink of destruction. In 1945 war came to an end. But a... -
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00'A training manual for our troubled times ... It makes sense of our world, but is also capable of beautifully crafted pithy historical judgements. ... It is a book that cares about liberty, choice... -
Strategies of Containment by John Lewis Gaddis 9780195174472
RRP: $64.33Booksplease Price: $28.22When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated... -
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis 9780143132516
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143132516Author John Lewis GaddisFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $23.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038276Author John Lewis GaddisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience by John Lewis Gaddis 9780674018365
Booksplease Price: $51.69September 11, 2001, distinguished Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis argues, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American... -
The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis 9780195043358
Booksplease Price: $53.78How has it happened that the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get through more than four decades of Cold War confrontation without going to war with one another? Historian John... -
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History by John Lewis Gaddis
Booksplease Price: $127.04The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective, one reflecting Soviet, East European, and Chinese as well as... -
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis 9780195171570
RRP: $28.26Booksplease Price: $22.97What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these... -
The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations by John Lewis Gaddis 9780195085518
Booksplease Price: $74.59This collection of eleven essays provides one of the first explanations of how and why the United States forty year struggle with the former Soviet Union has finally ended. The book contains... -
An Analysis of John Lewis Gaddis's We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History Scott Gilfillan 9781912128136
Booksplease Price: $13.03John Lewis Gaddis had written four previous books on the Cold War by the time he published We Now Know - so the main thrust of his new work was not so much to present new arguments as to re-examine... -
Teaching Common Sense: The Grand Strategy Program at Yale University by Linda Kulman 9781632260680
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $34.07How is critical thinking taught? How will the next generation cope with an ever-changing and increasingly complex world? These are questions that the Grand Strategy program at Yale seeks to address... -
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith 9781781259139
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45'Essential ... endlessly fascinating ... to read Sixsmith is to want to read more Sixsmith' Forbes More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And,... -
The Cold War: A New History Vladislav Zubok 9780241696149
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $38.08Why 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?... -
Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Iain MacGregor 9781408715420
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06With a foreword by William Boyd'Gripping and revelatory' Tom Holland'As convoluted and deadly as the plot of a novel by John le Carre, but all too real' Daily Mail, Must Reads'With a gripping... -
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Iain MacGregor 9781472130587 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $15.41'A lively, evocative account of the life and death of the world's most notorious wall. In capturing the essence of the old Cold War he may just have helped us to understand a bit more about the new... -
Strange Stability: How Cold War Scientists Set Out to Control the Arms Race and Ended Up Serving the Military-Industrial Complex Benjamin Wilson 9780674976085
RRP: $81.80Booksplease Price: $68.09An eye-opening reconsideration of the Cold War arms control movement, showing how scientists who presented themselves as independent-minded opponents of the arms race in fact functioned as agents of... -
Wallace Stevens and the Actual World by Alan Filreis 9780691603766
RRP: $113.10Booksplease Price: $93.74The work of Wallace Stevens has been read most widely as poetry concerned with poetry, and not with the world in which it was created; deemed utterly singular, it seems to resist being read as the... -
Interpretations of American History, 6th Ed, Vol. 2: Since 1877 by Gerald N. Grob 9780029126868
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $30.75This collection of essays on American history reflects recent scholarship. Contributors new to this edition include Gary Nash, Arthur Schlesinger, Richard P. McCormick, Gerda Lerner, Ellen C. DuBois,... -
Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror by Ian Shapiro
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $46.20In this powerfully argued book, Ian Shapiro shows that the idea of containment offers the best hope for protecting Americans and their democracy into the future. His bold vision for American security... -
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 by John Gaddis 9780231122399
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $57.17John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond the... -
Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation by Deborah Welch Larson
RRP: $120.90Booksplease Price: $101.73The description for this book, Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation, will be forthcoming.Reviews"One of the more encouraging historiographical developments of recent years has been the... -
In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy by Aaron L. Friedberg
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $78.84War--or the threat of war--usually strengthens states as governments tax, draft soldiers, exert control over industrial production, and dampen internal dissent in order to build military might. The... -
1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe - Updated Edition by Mary Elise Sarotte 9780691163710
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $35.471989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from... -
America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy - Expanded Edition by Tony Smith 9780691154923
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $46.78America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of... -
How Far the Promised Land?: World Affairs and the American Civil Rights Movement from the First World War to Vietnam by Jonathan Rosenberg 9780691007069
RRP: $120.90Booksplease Price: $101.73How Far the Promised Land? explores the relationship between overseas developments and the most important reform movement in modern American history, the struggle for racial justice. Interweaving... -
Kennan: A Life between Worlds Frank Costigliola 9780691270746
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $33.25A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American... -
Driving the Soviets up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961 by Hope M. Harrison 9780691124285
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $86.29The Berlin Wall was the symbol of the Cold War. For the first time, this path-breaking book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the communists' decision to build the Wall in 1961. Hope Harrison's... -
Kennan: A Life between Worlds by Frank Costigliola 9780691165400
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.59A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American... -
Reagan and the World by David E. Kyvig 9780313273414
Booksplease Price: $149.19Essays by seven historians. John Lewis Gaddis argues that Reagan's record of dealing with the Soviets is equal or superior to that of Nixon and Kissinger; Akira Iriye praises the administration for... -
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History by Scott Gilfillan 9781912302567
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $36.54John Lewis Gaddis had written four previous books on the Cold War by the time he published We Now Know - so the main thrust of his new work was not so much to present new arguments as to re-examine... -
Order and Justice in International Relations by Rosemary Foot 9780199251193
Booksplease Price: $108.58The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations. For most of the 20th century, states and international society... -
Explaining International Relations since 1945 by Ngaire Woods 9780198741961
Booksplease Price: $135.17History and theory are all too often treated as separate approaches to international relations. This book offers an accessible synthesis of sophisticated theory and in-depth history. The uses of... -
Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 by Piero Gleijeses 9780807854648
Booksplease Price: $95.76Based on unprecedented research in Cuban, American and European archives, this is an account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with US policy towards the... -
Reagan and the World by David E. Kyvig 9780275935658
Booksplease Price: $69.87Essays by seven historians. John Lewis Gaddis argues that Reagan's record of dealing with the Soviets is equal or superior to that of Nixon and Kissinger; Akira Iriye praises the administration for... -
Globalization and Fragmentation: International Relations in the Twentieth Century by Ian Clark 9780198781660
Booksplease Price: $134.59As we approach the end of the twentieth century, there is widespread interest in globalization which is thought to be shaping our lives technologically, economically, culturally, and in terms of... -
China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation by Jian Chen 9780231100250
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $52.71Through the use of recently released Chinese documents, conversations with People's Republic of China scholars, and in-depth interviews with people who were present at key decision-making meetings,... -
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War by Brendan Simms
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'History at its scintillating best ... hard-hitting, revelatory and superbly researched' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny 'A rare achievement ... sure to become an instant... -
Stalin, Vol. I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.36In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin... -
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"Empire" by Integration: The United States and European Integration, 1945-1997 by Geir Lundestad 9780198782117
Booksplease Price: $134.59"Empire" by Integration is the first comprehensive survey of the American policy towards European integration from 1945 to the present day. Geir Lundestad argues that, unlike other Great Powers, the...