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Cold War Asia

Cold War Asia

Unlearning Narratives, Making New Histories

Hajimu Masuda

Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic

Paul E. Lovejoy, Nielson Bezerra

Traveling to Unknown Places

Traveling to Unknown Places

Nineteenth-Century Journeys toward French and American Selfhood

Lloyd S. Kramer

Catastrophic Diplomacy

Catastrophic Diplomacy

US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century

Julia F. Irwin

The Edwin Fox

The Edwin Fox

How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850–1914

Boyd Cothran, Adrian Shubert

Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe

Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe

Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps

Eric L. Muller

An Army Afire

An Army Afire

How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era

Beth Bailey

The Struggle for Iran

The Struggle for Iran

Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951–1954

David S. Painter, Gregory Brew

The Vietnam War in the Pacific World

The Vietnam War in the Pacific World

Brian Cuddy, Fredrik Logevall

The Tormented Alliance

The Tormented Alliance

American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949

Zach Fredman

Us versus Them, Second Edition

Us versus Them, Second Edition

The United States, Radical Islam, and the Rise of the Green Threat

Douglas Little

Arise Africa, Roar China

Arise Africa, Roar China

Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century

Yunxiang Gao

Tears, Fire, and Blood

Tears, Fire, and Blood

The United States and the Decolonization of Africa

James H. Meriwether

Her Cold War

Her Cold War

Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980

Tanya L. Roth

Redefining the Immigrant South

Redefining the Immigrant South

Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War

Uzma Quraishi

Two Faces of Exclusion

Two Faces of Exclusion

The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States

Lon Kurashige

Opening the Gates to Asia

Opening the Gates to Asia

A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion

Jane H. Hong

France and the American Civil War

France and the American Civil War

A Diplomatic History

Stève Sainlaude, Jessica Edwards, Don H. Doyle

Armageddon Insurance

Armageddon Insurance

Civil Defense in the United States and Soviet Union, 1945–1991

Edward M. Geist

Putinomics

Putinomics

Power and Money in Resurgent Russia

Chris Miller

Cuban Revolution in America

Cuban Revolution in America

Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968-1992

Teishan A. Latner

Dangerous Grounds

Dangerous Grounds

Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era

David L. Parsons

The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy

The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy

Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR

Chris Miller

The Sino-Soviet Alliance

The Sino-Soviet Alliance

An International History

Austin Jersild

Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition

Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition

Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan

J. Samuel Walker

Empowering Revolution

Empowering Revolution

America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War

Gregory F. Domber