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1	The Cold War: A New History more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis add to wishlist Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the author provides a thrilling account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age. The work is rich with illuminating portraits of its major personalities and fresh insight into its most crucial events. see all copies from $4.75! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis add to wishlist What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a ... see all copies from $5.44! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
3	We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis add to wishlist The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective, one reflecting Soviet, East European, and Chinese as well as American and West European viewpoints. In a major departure from his earlier scholarship, John Lewis Gaddis, the pre-eminent American authority on the ... see all copies from $3.13! new only from $11.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis add to wishlist When "Strategies of Containment" was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic, carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, ... see all copies from $8.24! new only from $12.84! \| SVS
5	United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis add to wishlist This work offers a history of US policy towards the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II. It moves beyond the focus of economic considerations and examines instead the many other forces - domestic politics, and bureaucratic inertia - that influenced decision-makers in Washington. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.49! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Surprise, Security, and the American Experience more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis add to wishlist September 11, 2001, distinguished Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis argues, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American grand strategy. The pattern began in 1814, when the British Army attacked Washington, burning the White House and the Capitol. This early violation of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Russia, the Soviet Union and the United States : an interpretive history more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis add to wishlist In this survey of the Soviet-American relations from the days of Catherine the Great to the present, the author focuses on the interplay between interest and ideologies that has characterized contacts between the USA and the USSR. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $84.99! \| first editions
8	The Long Peace: Inquiries Into the History of the Cold War more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis add to wishlist How has it happened that the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get through more than four decades of Cold War confrontation without going to war with one another? Historian John Lewis Gaddis suggests answer to this and other vital questions about post-war diplomacy in this new book. Gaddis uses recently declassified American and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Order and Justice in International Relations more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis (Editor), Professor Andrew Hurrell (Editor), Rosemary Foot (Editor) add to wishlist The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations. For most of the twentieth century, states and international society gave priority to a view of order that focused on the minimum conditions for coexistence in a pluralist, conflictual world. Justice was seen either ... see all copies from $6.52! new only from $8.08! \| SVS
10	France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 more books like this by Mr. William I Hitchcock, John Lewis Gaddis (Foreword by) add to wishlist Historians of the Cold War, argues the author of this book, have too often overlooked the part that European nations played in shaping the post-World War II international system. In particular, he contends that France has been given short shrift. Drawing on a wide array of evidence from French, American and British archives, he aims to show that ... see all copies from $4.72! new only from $6.00! \| first editions
11 view cover	The United States and the Origins of the Cold War more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis add to wishlist John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of US policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond the focus on economic considerations that was central to the work of New Left historians, examining the many other forces - domestic politics, bureaucratic ... see all copies from $6.67! new only from $29.14! \| SVS
12 view cover	CNN's Cold War Documentary: Issues and Controversy more books like this by Arnold Beichman (Editor), Robert Conquest, John Lewis Gaddis add to wishlist This collection of important articles, commentaries, and reviews contains original essays by Robert Conquest, John Lewis Gaddis, and Richard Pipes, provides perspective on the "Cold War, " the CNN-produced twenty-four part television series and accompanying book, and presents material on both sides of the debate: Is the CNN series an accurate ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
13 view cover	The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis add to wishlist This collection of eleven essays provides one of the first explanations of how and why the United States forty year struggle with the former Soviet Union has finally ended. The book contains significant new interpretations of the American style in foreign policy, the objectives of containment, and the role of morality, nuclear weapons, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis add to wishlist When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Cold War more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis, Jay Gregory (Read by), Alan Sklar (Read by) add to wishlist The final audiobook in this series on the Cold War, from the "dean of Cold War historians" ("The New York Times"), presents the crowning work of a career spanning four decades. Unabridged. 10 CDs. see all copies from $4.52! new only from $4.54! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 more books like this by Mark Philip Bradley, John Lewis Gaddis (Foreword by) add to wishlist This study of the encounter between Vietnam and the United States from 1919 to 1950 reconceptualizes the origins of the Cold War in Vietnam and the place of postcolonial Vietnam in the history of the 20th century. Among the first Americans granted a visa to undertake research in Vietnam since the war, Bradley draws on newly available Vietnamese ... see all copies from $10.50! new only from $19.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and "Nation Building" in the Kennedy Era more books like this by Michael E Latham, John Lewis Gaddis (Foreword by) add to wishlist A discussion of the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, revealing how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. It demonstrates how the concept of global modernization became a motivating ideology behind policy decisions. see all copies from $19.99! new only from $27.59! \| SVS
18	Containing the Soviet Union: A Critique of Us Policy more books like this by Terry L Deibel, George Frost Gaddis (Editor), John Lewis Gaddis (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
19	Containment : concept and policy : based on a symposium cosponsored by the National Defense University and the Foreign Service Institute more books like this by Terry L. Deibel, John Lewis Gaddis, National Defense University, Foreign Service Institute (U.S.) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.50! new only from $40.00! \| SVS
20 view cover	Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945 more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis (Editor), Ernest May (Editor), Jonathan Rosenberg (Editor) add to wishlist Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945 is a path-breaking work that uses biographical techniques to test one of the most important and widely debated questions in international politics: Did the advent of the nuclear bomb prevent the Third World War? Many scholars and much conventional wisdom assumes that nuclear ... see all copies from $110.41! new only from $110.41! \| SVS
21	Containment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy, 1945-1950 more books like this by Thomas H Etzold add to wishlist see all copies from $7.95! first editions

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