The Cold War books

The study analyzes ideological and aesthetic choices made in the translation of literature, political writing, music...  Read More >>

This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world-order which politicized technology...  Read More >>

This book tells the story of the dissident imaginary of samizdat activists, the political culture they created,...  Read More >>

Through the story of Slavic languages, this timely book illustrates that decisions on what counts as a language...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the last phase of the Warsaw Pact, based on unusually large-scale archival research conducted...  Read More >>

The Transfer of Power Between Presidential Administrations examines the problems that can occur when a new president...  Read More >>

The Transfer of Power Between Presidential Administrations examines the problems that can occur when a new president...  Read More >>

Commonwealth and Independence in Post-Soviet Eurasia (1998) analyses in detail how the new states conceived their...  Read More >>

This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African...  Read More >>

The first major study of Alan Bush, this book provides new perspectives on music and communism in twentieth-century...  Read More >>

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Drawing on previously unused sources such as oral histories, anthropologists’ field notes, military records, municipal...  Read More >>

This biography of the vocal anti-communist and anti-nuclear activist's public life will interest readers across...  Read More >>

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This volume focuses on the interconnections between the Cold War, technological innovation and globalization.  Read More >>

First issued as an Oxford University Paperback, 2022.  Read More >>

The KC-135A made its maiden flight on 31 August 1956 and was still in front line service some 60 years later. What...  Read More >>

An excellent introduction to the shadowy world of espionage, how the superpowers went about it and how it impacted...  Read More >>

Revisits two seminal human rights cases in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute, Filartiga and Marcos,...  Read More >>

1989 bore witness to a number of seismic events; The fall of the Berlin Wall, protests at Tiananmen Square, the...  Read More >>

The story behind one of the most important football matches in history - a match both nations were desperate to...  Read More >>

The first complete history of the American surveillance state, from J. Edgar Hoover to Obama  Read More >>

The first complete history of the American surveillance state, from J. Edgar Hoover to Obama  Read More >>

In this powerful and thought-provoking book, thought leader Sundeep Waslekar examines the history of war and offers...  Read More >>

A comprehensive overview of the work of the Military Vehicles Research and Development Establishment on Chobham...  Read More >>