We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History ebook

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

Like the Fourth of July, Memorial Day is being turned into a celebration of war. Mar 24, 2008 - John Lewis Gaddis. Gaddis, John Lewis, 'Response to Painter and Lundestad', Cold War History, vol. We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. Memorial Day is when we commemorate our war dead. We now know that modernity comes in many forms and no matter which form it is replete with ironies, contradictions, and conflicts. Those who lose family members and dear friends to war don't want the deaths to have been in vain. 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. 4 days ago - Why War Is Inevitable. May 5, 2014 - This past history is now reinterpreted from the perspective of a new historical situation. Jun 8, 2010 - Gaddis, John Lewis, We now know: rethinking Cold War history, 1st edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998. The US is in the grip of the Neoconservative ideology which has declared the US to be the “exceptional, indispensable country” chosen by history to exercise hegemony over all others.