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We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher: Oxford University Press

The "tyranny of means" as John Lewis Gaddis called it in his book, We Now Know: Rethinking the Cold War). Oct 27, 2013 - As we approach the 50th anniversary of President John F. The year 1991 proved not to be the end of . And we are mortal." "The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. One historian who strenuously objects to the accepted left-wing interpretation that prevails in the academy is Jennifer Delton, Chairman of the Department of History at Skidmore College. At the conclusion of the Cold War, he argued that we were the last men and we had arrived at the end point of man's ideological development. Scholar-in-Residence at History and Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma .. This end point was liberal capitalism. Apr 29, 2011 - Gaddis, John Lewis. May 5, 2014 - This past history is now reinterpreted from the perspective of a new historical situation. We now know that modernity comes in many forms and no matter which form it is replete with ironies, contradictions, and conflicts. The priorities of the global market (Peet, 2009). 4 days ago - "we should then have only to include the North [Canada] in our confederacyand we should have such an empire for liberty as she has never surveyed since the creation: & I am persuaded no constitution was ever before so well calculated . In the March issue of The Journal of the Historical We may add detail and nuance to this story, but this, basically, is what we tell our students and ourselves about post-World War II anti-Communism, also known as McCarthyism. May 25, 2011 - [For the record, I believe we have a world class military history department in Army ILE (led by a very accomplished Vietnam War historian who also served as a MACV adviser during the war. Argument Gaddis addresses the Cold War in the 90s, as new material flows out of the former Soviet Union. While all policymakers sing the praises of the global market, they do not tell us that the global market is fundamentally un-democratic. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. I do not think his Sometimes I wonder if one of our issues is that we have a large, extremely expensive solution looking for a problem (i.e. But we now have the gift of hindsight, of history. The interpretation, the new narrative, is a product of a particular time and place, a postcolonial and post-Cold War world in which things fall apart and Western Europe and the United States have lost some of their hegemony. Kennedy's assassination we are reminded of his enduring hold on the popular imagination.