Beyond the Cold War

“Even more happened in the 1960s than we thought….The editors Francis J. Gavinand Mark Atwood Lawrence lay out the underlying factors that accelerated what would become known as globalization….This book demonstrates that the 1960s remain a rich field for research.”–Journal of American History”Distinguished historians Frank Gavin and Mark Lawrence have assembled an all-star cast of young scholars of U.S. foreign relations to shed new light on the 1960s, a decade we thought we already knew perhaps too well. These excellent essays focus on contemporary global issues of the greatest importance–environmental change, energy, poverty and disease, human rights, religion, globalization–and trace them back to their emergence as policy concerns during theLyndon Johnson administration. The authors challenge and expand our understanding of national security in a global age. This is some of the best of the new U.S. international history.“–ThomasBorstelmann, author of The Cold War and the Color Line”This exemplary collection sets the agenda for a new phase in the scholarship on the international history of the 1960s.“–Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University

Francis J. Gavin is the Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971 and Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age. Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam and The Vietnam War: A Concise International History.

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