Jonathan Colman

Cuban Missile Crisis (eBook, ePUB)

Origins, Course and Aftermath

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

October 1962, The Cuban Missile Crisis: the confrontation that brought the world closer to nuclear catastrophe than ever before or since. Both John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were determined to avoid nuclear war, but events could easily have spiraled out of control with cataclysmic results. Drawing on an extensive body of research, including primary sources released only in the last few years, this work places the crisis in a broader international and chronological context than previously possible. Discover how America was responsible for causing the conflict and Cuba's role as an important actor rather than a superpower pawn.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748696314
• Artikelnr.: 72412806

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Colman teaches international and US history at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, England. He is the author of A 'Special Relationship'? Harold Wilson, Lyndon B. Johnson and Anglo-American Relations 'at the Summit', 1964-68 (2004), and The Foreign Policy of Lyndon B. Johnson: The United States and the World, 1963-69 (2010). He has also published numerous articles in leading peer-reviewed journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The United States, the Cuban Revolution and the Cold War, 1959-61
2. The Decision to Base Nuclear Missiles in Cuba, Spring-Summer 1962
3. Discovering the Missile Bases, 14-22 October 1962
4. Confrontation, 22-25 October 1962
5. A World Crisis, 22-28 October 1962
6. Nadir and Resolution, 26-28 October 1962
7. Aftermath I, November-December 1962
8. Aftermath II, 1963-70
Conclusion
Appendix 1: List of Persons
Appendix 2: Chronology
Appendix 3: Biographies
Appendix 4: Documents