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xiv, 484 p. : Grayscale Illustration ; 24 cm. |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York. |
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This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. |
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First published 2005. |
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First paperback edition 2007. |
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Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge. |
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A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library. |
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Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. |
Contents |
Introduction -- The empire of liberty: American ideology and foreign interventions -- The empire of justice: Soviet ideology and foreign interventions -- The revolutionaries: anticolonial politics and transformations -- Creating the Third World: the United States confronts revolution -- The Cuban and Vietnamese challenges -- The crisis of decolonization: Southern Africa -- The prospects of socialism: Ethiopia and the Horn -- The Islamist defiance: Iran and Afghanistan -- The 1980s: the Reagan offensive -- The Gorbachev withdrawal and the end of the Cold War -- Conclusion: Revolutions, interventions, and great power collapse. |
Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2021. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
Subject |
Comparative/World.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
ISBN |
9780521703147 paper |
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9780521853644 hardcover |
Standard No. |
2027/heb06172 hdl |
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