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  • The Cold War

    A World History

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    An essential history of the Cold War, from the author of The Penguin History of the World**.****"[A] big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent stud[y] of the cold war." -**New York Review of BooksWe think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad argues that the war must be understood as a glob ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Coming Storm

    Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    An Economist best book of the yearA Foreign Affairs best book of the yearA Foreign Policy most anticipated book of the yearFrom a renowned Yale historian comes a chilling look at the looming threat of the next Great Power war and the urgent interventions necessary to avoid it in the twenty-first century.The vast majority of people al... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Restless Empire

    China and the World Since 1750

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with the outside world, the contradictions of its ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • The Penguin History of the World

    6th edition

    by J M Roberts, Odd Arne Westad ...
    This is a completely new and updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World.For generations of readers The Penguin History of the World has been one of the great cultural experiences - the entire story of human endeavour laid out in all its grandeur and folly, drama and pain in a single authoritative book. Now, for the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    The Cold War

    A World History

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 44 min

    In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe. We traditionally think of the Cold War as a post-World War II diplomatic and military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Westad argues that the conflict must be understood as a global ... Read more

    Was $49.99 CAD Now $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Great Transformation

    China’s Road from Revolution to Reform

    by Odd Arne Westad, Chen Jian ...
    Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours

    THE FIRST THOROUGH ACCOUNT OF A FORMATIVE AND LITTLE UNDERSTOOD CHAPTER IN CHINESE HISTORYOdd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Global Cold War

    Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    The Cold War shaped the world we live in today - its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalization of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two twentieth-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Empire and Righteous Nation

    600 Years of China-Korea Relations

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    Series Book 14 - The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
    From an award-winning historian, a concise overview of the deep and longstanding ties between China and the Koreas, providing an essential foundation for understanding East Asian geopolitics today.In a concise, trenchant overview, Odd Arne Westad explores the cultural and political relationship between China and the Koreas over the past 600 years.Koreans long saw China as a mentor. The first form ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    The Coming Storm

    Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    Narrated by Brian Troxell ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 31 min

    A Foreign Policy most anticipated book of the yearFrom a renowned Yale historian comes a chilling look at the looming threat of the next Great Power war and the urgent interventions necessary to avoid it in the twenty-first century.The vast majority of people alive today have come of age in a world of remarkable stability, presided over by either one or two Superpowers. This is not to say the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 1, Origins

    Edited by Melvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the Cold War
    This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War. In the first comprehensive reexamination of the period, a team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical environments of the two world wars and interwar period, and discusses how markets, ideas and cultural interactions affected political discourse, diplomacy ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Volume 3, Endings

    Edited by Melvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the Cold War
    Volume III of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the evolution of the conflict from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 until the Soviet collapse in 1991. A team of leading scholars analyzes the economic, social, cultural, religious, technological and geopolitical factors that ended the Cold War and discusses the personalities and policies of key leaders such as Brezhnev, Reagan, Gorbachev ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • Makers of Modern Asia

    by Ramachandra Guha, Jay Taylor, Rana Mitter, Odd Arne Westad, Srinath Raghavan, Farzana Shaikh, James Rush, Michael D. Barr, Jian Chen, Sophie Quinn-Judge0 ...
    Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and India’s increasing importance in world affairs. Yet discussions of Asia seem fixated on economic indicators—gross national product, per capita income, share of global trade. Makers of Modern Asia reorients our understanding of contemporary Asia by highlighting the political ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD