Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750, Westad Odd Arne

Автор: J M Roberts and Odd Arne Westad
Название: The Penguin History of the World
ISBN: 1846144434 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846144431
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Tells the story of human endeavour that laid out in all its grandeur and folly, drama and pain. This book reflects what now seems to be the inexorable rise of Asia and the increasingly troubled situation in the West.

Автор: Arnett Ronald C., Arneson Patricia
Название: Philosophy of Communication Ethics: Alterity and the Other
ISBN: 1611477557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611477559
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Описание: Philosophy of Communication Ethics is a unique and timely volume that creatively examines communication ethics, philosophy of communication, and the `Other.`

Автор: Westad, Odd Arne
Название: The Cold War: A World History
ISBN: 0241011310 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241011317
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Описание: 'Odd Arne Westad's daring ambition, supra-nationalist intellect, polyglot sources, masterly scholarship and trenchant analysis make The Cold War a book ofresounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard Davenport-Hines, TLS, Books of the Year As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War. For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us.

There was no part of the world where East and West did not, ultimately, demand a blind and absolute allegiance, and nowhere into which the West and East did not reach. Countries as remote from each other as Korea, Angola and Cuba were defined by their allegiances. Almost all civil wars became proxy conflicts for the superpowers.

Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely. Arne Westad's remarkable new book is the first to have the distance from these events and the ambition to create a convincing, powerful narrative of the Cold War. The book is genuinely global in its reach and captures the dramas and agonies of a period always overshadowed by the horror of nuclear war and which, for millions of people, was not 'cold' at all: a time of relentless violence, squandered opportunities and moral failure.

This is a book of extraordinary scope and daring. It is conventional to see the first half of the 20th century as a nightmare and the second half as a reprieve. Westad shows that for much of the world the second half was by most measures even worse.