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Title: Russia, America, and the Cold War, 1949-1991 (Seminar Studies in History) by Martin McCauley ISBN: 0-582-27936-4 Publisher: Longman Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not bad
Comment: A good overview of the main events of this period: if you're just generally curious about the Cold War and what the main events and trends in it were, this is quite suitable. However, the sheer brevity of the format of this series of books (and 'Seminar Studies' is very good, believe me) works against a fully fleshed-out account of this topic. There are mentions of certain events but they lack a little background needed to explain them. I kept finding myself reading some remark and thinking 'But *why* did that happen?'. Still, a good read, and well-explained.
Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent overview
Comment: As an AP American Hisitory teacher, I was looking for a concise book that would give my students a good overview of the Cold War. This turned out to be an excellent book, well suited for my purpose. I have my students read three books over the summer as they prepare for my class, this was one of the three. McCauley gives a concise account of the Cold War, starting with the Berlin crisis of 1948 and ending with the fall of the Soviet Union. His chronological framework to the book takes the reader through some very difficult sernerios for the United States. McCauley starts off with some background material, giving the reader eight theories about the reasons for the Cold War, some give the reader many interesting things to think about as they go through the book. McCauley then goes through the Cold War and breaks it down into five generalized time periods. This makes it easier for students that may not know much about the time period to understand the Cold War. McCauley ends the book by asking seven challanging questions for the reader to ponder. This gives the reader a chance to digest the information and helps the reader come to some interesting conclusions. The sixteen documents that McCauley provides also gives the readers of the book different ideas and causes as well as consequences of the Cold War that may have been missed in this short but excellent overview of the Cold War.
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Title: The Origins of the Second World War: Seminar Studies in History Series, Second Edition by R. J. Overy ISBN: 0582290856 Publisher: Longman Pub. Date: 25 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Origins of the Cold War 1941-1949, Seminar Studies in History (2nd Edition) by Martin McCauley ISBN: 0582276594 Publisher: Longman Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Arms and Influence by Thomas C. Schelling ISBN: 0300002211 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1966 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Honey and Vinegar: Incentives, Sanctions, and Foreign Policy by Richard N. Haass, Meghan L. O'Sullivan ISBN: 0815733550 Publisher: Brookings Institution Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict - revised edition (International Security Readers) by Michael E. Brown, Steven E. Miller ISBN: 0262523159 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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