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  • The Politics of Peace

    A Global Cold War History

    by Petra Goedde ...
    During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days our governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." At that very moment international peace organizations were bypassing national governments ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • International History

    A Cultural Approach

    by Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde ...
    International History: A Cultural Approach offers an innovative history of modern international relations that stresses cultural themes. In place of the usual focus on great-power rivalries, diplomatic negotiations, military conflict, and other phenomena in which sovereign nations are the key players, this book focuses on intercultural relations as individuals, races, religions, and non-state ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War

    Edited by Richard H. Immerman, Petra Goedde ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War offers a broad reassessment of the period war based on new conceptual frameworks developed in the field of international history. Nearing the 25th anniversary of its end, the cold war now emerges as a distinct period in twentieth-century history, yet one which should be evaluated within the broader context of global political, economic, social, and cultural ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • American Fatherhood

    A History

    by Jürgen Martschukat ...
    Translated by Petra Goedde ...
    Explores the surprising diversity of fathers and fatherhood throughout American history and societyThe nuclear family has been endlessly praised as the bedrock of American society, even though there has rarely been a time in history when a majority of Americans lived in such families. This book deconstructs the myth of the nuclear family by presenting the rich diversity of family lives in American ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Return of History

    Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Jennifer Welsh ...
    Series Book 2016 - The CBC Massey Lectures
    In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics.In 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World America Made

    by Robert Kagan ...
    What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world might look like if the United States were truly to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Of Paradise and Power

    America and Europe in the New World Order

    by Robert Kagan ...
    From Robert Kagan, a leading scholar of American foreign policy, comes an insightful analysis of the state of European and American foreign relations. At a time when relations between the United States and Europe are at their lowest ebb since World War II, this brief but cogent book is essential reading. Kagan forces both sides to see themselves through the eyes of the other. Europe, he argues, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Ideas That Conquered The World

    Peace, Democracy, And Free Markets In The Twenty-first Century

    by Michael Mandelbaum ...
    At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between and among different countries, democracy as the optimal way to organize political life, and free markets as the indispensable vehicle for the creation of wealth. While not practiced everywhere, these ideas have--for the first time in history--no serious rivals. And although ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • America's Mission

    The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy - Expanded Edition

    by Tony Smith ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of how American foreign policy has been used to try to promote democracy worldwide, an effort that enjoyed its greatest triumphs in the occupations of Japan and Germany but suffered huge setbacks in ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Aftershocks

    Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century

    by Seva Gunitsky ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform. Aftershocks offers a new global-oriented explanation for this wavelike spread and retreat—not only of democracy but also of its twentieth-century rivals, fascism and communism.Seva Gunitsky argues that waves of regime change are ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cold War in the Third World

    Edited by Robert J. McMahon ...
    Series series Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time
    The Cold War in the Third World explores the complex interrelationships between the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence and the rise of the Third World. Those two distinct but overlapping phenomena placed a powerful stamp on world history throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Featuring original essays by twelve leading scholars, this collection examines the influence of ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Right Kind of Revolution

    Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present

    by Michael E. Latham ...
    "Michael E. Latham has provided a very interesting and useful synthesis of the rise and decline (and eventual reappearance) of modernization theory in the United States, exploring both its intellectual roots and its deep connections to the country's foreign policy."— Michele Alacevich ― Technology and CultureAfter World War II, a powerful conviction took hold among American intellectuals and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD