Mental Maps in the Early Cold War Era, 1945-68

The early Cold War was a period of dramatic change. New superpowers emerged, the European powers were eclipsed, colonial empires tottered. Political leaders everywhere had to make immense adjustments. This volume explores their hopes and fears, their sense of their place in the world and of the constraints under which they laboured.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Casey & J.Wright Joseph Stalin; S.Radchenko   Harry S. Truman; S.Casey Ernest Bevin; A.Deighton Charles De Gaulle; S.Hazareesingh Konrad Adenauer; J.Wright WLadysLaw Gomulka; A.Prazmowska Josip Broz Tito; J.Perovi? Mao Zedong ; Y.Xia Ho Chi Minh; S.Quinn-Judge Jawaharlal Nehru; J.Brown Gamal Abdel Nasser; L.James Fidel Castro; C.Foss John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson;  A.Preston Nikita Khrushchev; M.Uhl Further Reading Index

About the Author :
JUDITH BROWN Beit Professor of Commonwealth History, Oxford University, UK STEVEN CASEY Reader in International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK ANNE DEIGHTON Professor of European International Politics and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK CLIVE FOSS Visiting Professor in the Department of History, Georgetown University, USA SUDHIR HAZAREESINGH Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK LAURA M. JAMES author and former Middle East analyst with the Economist Intelligence Unit JERONIM PEROVI? Senior Researcher, the Institute of History, University of Basel ANITA PRA?MOWSKA Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK ANDREW PRESTON Senior Lecturer in History and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, UK SOPHIE QUINN-JUDGE Associate Professor of History, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA SERGEY RADCHENKO Lecturer in Asian-American relations, the University of Nottingham's Chinese campus, Ningbo, China MATTHIAS UHL Senior Researcher, the German Historical Institute in Moscow, Russia JONATHAN WRIGHT Emeritus Professor in International Relations and Tutor in Politics at Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK YAFENG XIA Associate Professor of History, Long Island University, New York, USA, and Guest Professor, Centre for Cold War International History Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Review :
Praise for Mental Maps in the Era of Two World Wars': 'This fine collection of essays on the 'mental maps' of key statesmen during the inter-war period makes an important contribution to this new approach ... a stimulating and extremely useful set of essays.' - Peter Jackson, English Historical Review 'This is an excellent book deeply researched by its 14 contributors, concisely and engagingly written, and impressively argued overall. It is one that professors of modern global history and international relations will want to read, take notes on, and have on their shelves for reference; and many will want to assign either the entire book or selected chapters as required reading.' - Ralph Levering, Davidson College, Cold War History