ephika Posted March 20, 2010 Report Share Posted March 20, 2010 I am looking for a book that discusses different historical interpretations of the origins of the Cold War. Does anyone know a book that does this? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetnsimple786 Posted March 20, 2010 Report Share Posted March 20, 2010 We read chapters 17 & 19 of this book: http://www.amazon.com/Diplomacy-Touchstone-book-Henry-Kissinger/dp/0671510991Kissinger is an expert on this, or so I've heard. 17 is about the beginning and therefore discusses causes in general. 19 is on the Korean War and it outlines how things escalated/caused Cold War tensions. We haven't discussed Vietnam yet, but my teacher may give us some of the chapters on that. Look at the table of contents. I'd say maybe 1/3 - 1/2 is tied to it, depending on your perspective. We also read something from Stoessinger on the Korean War, if you're interested [as a cause of the CW]My teacher also gave us this book: http://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-History-Documents-Pages/dp/019516637XIt's pretty much all primary documents. It is US-centric, but it ties in the rest of the world. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMT Posted May 18, 2010 Report Share Posted May 18, 2010 we have a great outline in the Oxford Study Course "IB History Paper 2: The Cold War", by Sam Olofsson. Its an oldish edition, and im not sure if its online, but it has a great list of the historiography of the origins of the Cold war and answers every part of the syllabus in a really clear way. We're about halfway through it, and it seems to be very rounded, not at all biased (unlike the heavily biased American textbook we have as well) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprintdominator Posted October 18, 2010 Report Share Posted October 18, 2010 i guess all of you people have forgotten John Lewis Gladdis! 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scade Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Yeah, John Lewis Gaddis is a good author on the Cold War, although I found the most general one a bit too general, but it does include different interpretations for the origins of the Cold War. I would be rater cautious with using Henry Kissinger as your central author on the Cold War as he himself played an influential role in it, strongly committed to a certain side and might therefore offer slightly biased information. Instead it is very good to read him in order to get a good understanding of how he stood on the issues. It's a bit similar to using Trotsky's account of the Russian revolution as your central guiding book. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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