The Struggle against Imperialism
Anticolonialism and the Cold War
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- 38,99 €
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- 38,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
This concise and engaging book argues that the Cold War and anti-colonial movements should properly be studied and taught together, not as distinct developments, but rather as interwoven aspects of a complex global transformation. The authors provide a cogent and concise description of the post–World War II era and reveal connective dimensions of that era that remain hidden in books that focus primarily on either the Cold War or the struggles against imperial rule. It not only deals with anti-colonialism and Cold War together but also portrays the Cold War as a contest between “anti-imperialist empires,” capped by the collapse of one of them—the multicultural trans-regional Soviet realm—in a work that is engaging and accessible to both students and general readers.
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Judge and Langdon (The Cold War Through Documents: A Global History) have crafted an instructive, thorough history of 20th-century geopolitics that shows how the Cold War and third-world struggles against imperialism were "inextricably interconnected." Each chapter focuses on a specific region and time period, and highlights how the United States and the Soviet Union used anti-imperial posturing to secure allies in an arms race and a lockdown on resources that is, to pursue their own imperialistic aims. According to Judge and Langdon, both countries used their aid in third-world anticolonial movements for example, the U.S.'s military support of Israel and the U.S.S.R.'s supplying weapons to Arab states to promote their own agendas across the globe; meanwhile, the leaders of those anticolonial movements sought to promote their groups' independence by playing the two major powers against each other, as when China, allied with the Soviets, entered into dialogue with U.S. president Richard Nixon in 1972. The book zooms in on specific third-world anti-imperial struggles, like the rise of Ho Chi Minh's communism in Vietnam, Nassar's Pan-Arab movement, and Chile's Marxist wave. Judge and Langdon's work yields a dense but fascinating ideological history of modern geopolitics.
