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Small Wars, Far Away Places : The Genesis of the Modern World, 1945-65
por Burleigh, Michael
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- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0230752322
- ISBN 13
- 9780230752320
- Livreiro
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Dunfermline, Fife, United Kingdom
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Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Sinopse
A sweeping history of the Cold War’s many “hot” wars born in the last gasps of empire The Cold War reigns in popular imagination as a period of tension between the two post-World War II superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, without direct conflict. Drawing from new archival research, prize-winning historian Michael Burleigh gives new meaning to the seminal decades of 1945 to 1965 by examining the many, largely forgotten, “hot” wars fought around the world. As once-great Western colonial empires collapsed, counter-insurgencies campaigns raged in the Philippines, the Congo, Iran, and other faraway places. Dozens of new nations struggled into existence, the legacies of which are still felt today. Placing these vicious struggles alongside the period-defining United States and Soviet standoffs in Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba, Burleigh swerves from Algeria to Kenya, to Vietnam and Kashmir, interspersing top-level diplomatic negotiations with portraits of the charismatic local leaders. The result is a dazzling work of history, a searing analysis of the legacy of imperialism and a reminder of just how the United States became the world’s great enforcer.
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- Livreiro
- Better World Books Ltd
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 46494146-20
- Título
- Small Wars, Far Away Places : The Genesis of the Modern World, 1945-65
- Autor
- Burleigh, Michael
- Estado do livro
- Used - Good
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0230752322
- ISBN 13
- 9780230752320
- Editorial
- Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
- Local de publicação
- London
- Esta edição foi publicada pela primeira vez
- 2013
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