The Cold War

10 Oct 2009 14:29

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Yet another inadequate placeholder

Aspects of particular interest: how it shaped domestic developments in America; the cultural struggle aspect.

See also: the USA; the USSR; China; Afghanistan; War; Nukes; Espionage

To read:
• H. W. Brands, The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War
• Barbara Barksdale Clowse, Brainpower for the Cold War: The Sputnik Crisis and tha National Defense Education Act of 1958
• Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
• Robert D. English, Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals and the End of the Cold War
• Matthew Evangelista, Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War
• John Fousek, To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War
• Jean Franco, The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War
• Jeff Goodwin, No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 [Blurb]
• Greg Grandin, The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War [Blurb]
• Mark N. Katz, The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World [1991]
• John Krige, American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe [Blurb]
• Jennifer S. Light, From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America [Blurb]
• William E. Odom, On Internal War: American and Soviet Approaches to Third World Clients and Insurgents [1992; "concludes that faulty notions of causation inform US policy in all strategies for counterinsurgency"!]
• Edward E. Rice, Wars of the Third Kind: Conflict in Underdeveloped Countries [Online]
• Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
• David F. Schmitz, Thank God They're on Our Side: The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1921--1965
• Tom Vanderbilt, Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America
• Martin Walker, The Cold War: A History
• Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times [Blurb]
• Stephen J. Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War [in the US]
• Vladislav Zubok and Constantie Pleshakov, Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Khrushchev