{"product_id":"uncertain-empire-american-history-and-the-idea-of-the-cold-war-9780199826148","title":"Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War","description":"Historians have long understood that the notion of the cold war is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union was a war that fell ambiguously short of war, an armed truce that produced considerable bloodshed. Yet scholars in the\u003cbr\u003erapidly expanding field of Cold War studies have seldom paused to consider the conceptual and chronological foundations of the idea of the Cold War itself. In \u003cem\u003eUncertain Empire\u003c\/em\u003e, a group of leading scholars takes up the challenge of making sense of the idea of the Cold War and its application to the\u003cbr\u003ewriting of American history. They interrogate the concept from a wide range of disciplinary vantage points--diplomatic history, the history of science, literary criticism, cultural history, and the history of religion--highlighting the diversity of methods and approaches in contemporary Cold War\u003cbr\u003estudies. Animating the volume as a whole is a question about the extent to which the Cold War was an American invention. \u003cem\u003eUncertain Empire\u003c\/em\u003e brings debates over national, global, and transnational history into focus and offers students of the Cold War a new framework for considering recent developments\u003cbr\u003ein the field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joel Isaac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199826148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoel Isaac\u003c\/strong\u003e is Lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Christ's College, and the author of \u003cem\u003eWorking Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDuncan Bell\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Christ's College, and the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39937661567091,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_1401383c-7368-4e35-9d84-cc9e9fa45f05.jpg?v=1647995200","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/uncertain-empire-american-history-and-the-idea-of-the-cold-war-9780199826148","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}