| Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War Contributor(s): Isaac, Joel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199826145 ISBN-13: 9780199826148 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $47.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 973.91 |
| LCCN: 2012003132 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 314 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Historians have long understood that the notion of the cold war is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union was a war that fell ambiguously short of war, an armed truce that produced considerable bloodshed. Yet scholars in the rapidly expanding field of Cold War studies have seldom paused to consider the conceptual and chronological foundations of the idea of the Cold War itself. In Uncertain Empire, a group of leading scholars takes up the challenge of making sense of the idea of the Cold War and its application to the writing of American history. They interrogate the concept from a wide range of disciplinary vantage points--diplomatic history, the history of science, literary criticism, cultural history, and the history of religion--highlighting the diversity of methods and approaches in contemporary Cold War studies. Animating the volume as a whole is a question about the extent to which the Cold War was an American invention. Uncertain Empire brings debates over national, global, and transnational history into focus and offers students of the Cold War a new framework for considering recent developments in the field. |