Beyond the Cold War: Lyndon Johnson And The New Global Challenges Of The 1960S (Reinterpreting History) (Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time) - Tapa blanda

 
9780199790708: Beyond the Cold War: Lyndon Johnson And The New Global Challenges Of The 1960S (Reinterpreting History) (Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time)
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ISBN 10: 0199790701 ISBN 13: 9780199790708
Editorial: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2014

Sinopsis

In writing about international affairs in the 1960s, historians have naturally focused on the Cold War. The decade featured perilous confrontations between the United States and the Soviet Union over Berlin and Cuba, the massive buildup of nuclear stockpiles, the escalation of war in Vietnam, and bitter East-West rivalry throughout the developing world. As the world historical force of globalization has quickened and deepened, however, historians have begun to see that many of the global challenges that we face today

Beyond the Cold War examines how the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson responded to this changing international landscape. To what extent did U.S. leaders understand these changes? How did they prioritize these issues alongside the geostrategic concerns that dominated their daily agendas and the headlines of the day? How successfully did Americans grapple with these long-range problems, with what implications for the future? What lessons lie in the efforts of Johnson and his aides to cope with a new and inchoate agenda of problems? By reconsidering the 1960s, this work suggests a new research agenda predicated on the idea that the Cold War was not the only - or perhaps even the most important - feature of international life in the postwar period.

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Francis J. Gavin is the Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971 and Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in Americas Atomic Age.

Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam and The Vietnam War: A Concise International History.



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Editorial
Oxford University Press, Usa
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0199790701
ISBN 13 
9780199790708
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Número de páginas
320
Editor
Gavin Francis J.
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9780199790692: Beyond the Cold War: Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s (Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time)

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ISBN 10:  0199790698 ISBN 13:  9780199790692
Editorial: Academic, 2014
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