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The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 4, America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945–1991

by Warren I. Cohen (Author)
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
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This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective. All of the major foreign policy issues, including the origins of the Soviet-American conflict; the extension of the confrontation to Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere on the periphery; wars in Korea and Vietnam; crises involving the Taiwan Straits, Berlin, and Cuba; the rise and fall of detente; imperial overreach; and the critical roles of Reagan and Gorbachev in the 1980s are carefully analyzed and clearly explained.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0521483816
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0521483810
  3. Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
  4. Publication date
    April 28, 1995
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  7. Print length
    300 pages
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"Drawing upon recent scholarship and using new as well as traditional approaches, four distinguished historians provide...excellent summaries of the international history of the United States from its emergence as a nation to its global involvement as a great power. Each author gives a distinctive interpretation to the period covered, yet together the four volumes furnish a cohesive overview of the history of U.S. foreign relations." The Historian

"Happily, the new, four-volume Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations provides an opportunity to scan the past two centuries for indications of the shape of foreign policy in the post-Cold War world. Each of the four books stands on its own. Each offers a clear overview of a particular period written by a distinguished historian drawing on a considerable body of research, itself the product of decades of scholarly endeavor. None is simply a chronicle of events." World Policy Journal

"These books can be read together, or, thanks to fairly broad and overlapping introductory chapters, they can be read as discrete volumes. They will certainly make an impact on the profession." Canadian Journal of History

"...lucid, balanced and readable....the best available survey of American foreign policy during the postwar period. America in the Age of Soviet Power provides an excellent starting point for exploring the story of postwar foreign policy." Jonathan Rosenberg, Boston Book Review

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This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press (April 28, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521483816
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521483810
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

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RKM
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2015
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Loved this series. Great source for looking at US policy during the Cold War.
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david papi
5.0 out of 5 stars Xcllnt
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2014
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Sol D.
1.0 out of 5 stars Geeze..awful..
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2015
Cambridge was, and may still be, a haven for communists. So why on earth would anyone in their right mind trust a Cambridge "history" of ANYTHING Soviet and expect it to be ANYTHING but a fawning butt-kissing of atheist-Marxist tryannical dictatorship?!

By the way, atheist-Marxist governments killed over 200 million of their own citizens during the 20th century. Does that make you feel like bowing to Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Ho, Castro, etc., or does it make you feel like learning a bit about U.S. Constitutional FREEDOMS?!

God bless you. (I say this both because I really mean it, and also because the Soviets failed at their attempt to kill Christianity. Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, Amen.)
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Josh
3.0 out of 5 stars Basic and fairly predictable Cold War history
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2018
Warren Cohen thinks that FDR's New Deal is the best of what America has produced; thinks anti-communism was mostly hysteria; opposes with heated emotion any sort of global imperial power-projection (and decries the budget deficits caused thereby); and thinks that both American and Soviet policymakers, but mostly the Americans, were too short-sighted to see the security dilemma that their military posturing created. With these simple principles you can reliably predict Cohen's attitude towards any given 20th-century event or policy. This would be a good, short intro to US Cold War foreign policy for someone who knew very little about it, but for someone who knows the basics, it won't be terribly enlightening.
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