New Left and the Origins of the Cold War
Regular price
€40.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Robert James Maddox
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Albert Kesselring
Allied Commission
Allied Control Council
Allied-occupied Germany
Allies of World War II
Andrei Gromyko
Author_Robert James Maddox
automatic-update
Berlin Conference
Berlin Declaration (1945)
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=JPQ
Category=JPS
Charles E. Bohlen
Coalition government
Containment
COP=United States
Crimean War
D. F. Fleming
David Horowitz
Declaration of war
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Demobilization
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eastern Europe
Edgar Snow
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
European Advisory Commission
European theatre of World War II
Foreign policy
Foreign policy of the United States
Foreign Relations Series
Former eastern territories of Germany
Gabriel Kolko
Georgy Zhukov
Harry Hopkins
Harry S. Truman
Historiography
Italian Front (World War I)
James F. Byrnes
Jingoism
John R. Deane
Language_English
Lend-Lease
Mission to Moscow
Moscow Declarations
Nazi Party
Oder-Neisse line
Open Door Policy
Origins of the Cold War
PA=Available
Potsdam Agreement
Potsdam Conference
Price_€20 to €50
Provisional government
PS=Active
Realpolitik
Rebuttal
Reconstruction of Germany
Russia-United States relations
Russians
Schutzstaffel
softlaunch
Soviet people
Soviet Union
Sphere of influence
Superiority (short story)
The American People (book)
The End of the War
The Fortune of War
The Journal of American History
Totalitarianism
Truman Doctrine
United States Atomic Energy Commission
United States Department of State
Victory in Europe Day
Vyacheslav Molotov
War cabinet
World Politics
World War I
World War II
Yalta
Yalta Conference
Product details
- ISBN 9780691618579
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
As more and more people are questioning the assumptions of present U.S. foreign policy they are reexamining the roots of these policies in the diplomacy of the Cold War. This scrutiny has made the origins of the Cold War the most controversial issue in American diplomatic history. Now a complete new dimension has been added to the debate by the charges leveled by Robert James Maddox in The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War. How did the Cold War begin? Who or what was responsible? Could it have been avoided? Was it a temporary condition created by a combination of individual personalities and historical factors, or did it represent the clash of fundamentally irreconcilable political systems? The orthodox explanation of the Cold War is that it was "the brave and essential response of free men to Communist aggression." A number of scholars more or less identified with the New Left have challenged the conventional explanation by asserting that the U.S. bears the major responsibility for its onset.
One group of revisionists sees this as the result of a failure of statesmanship on the part of Truman and the advisors around him, the other that the Cold War was the inevitable result of the American system as it developed over the years. Their conclusions have often been challenged in matters of interpretation. Robert Maddox, however, believes that an examination of the manner in which new interpretations are reached should precede dialogues over the ideas themselves. Consequently he has examined seven of the most prominent New Left works: The Tragedy of American Diplomacy by William Appleman Williams; The Cold War and Its Origins by D. F. Fleming; Atomic Diplomacy by Gar Alperovitz; The Free World Colossus by David Horowitz; The Politics of War by Gabriel Kolko; Yalta by Diane Shaver Clemens; and Architects of Illusion by Lloyd C. Gardner. After detailed comparisons of the evidence they present with the sources from which it was taken, he concludes that these books are based on pervasive misuse of the source materials and fail to measure up to the most elementary standards of good scholarship. Originally published in 1973.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
