{"product_id":"cold-war-on-five-continents","title":"Cold War on Five Continents","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9798888905029\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Cloth over boards\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2026\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative analysis of the deadly Cold War conflicts that devastated countries and communities far from Moscow and Washington.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTransforming battlegrounds in Africa, Asia, and Latin America into veritable hellscapes, the surrogate wars of the Cold War era left behind a legacy of collective trauma and social conflict that have persisted into the present. In this ambitious work, Alfred W. McCoy uses a bottom-up, outside-in approach to offer an unexpected new perspective on the longest, most consequential conflict in modern history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcCoy renders an intimate portrait of both embattled covert operatives and committed antiwar protesters, thus humanising the history of the Cold War a history that has too often been told in impersonal terms of economic growth, nuclear arsenals, or diplomatic ententes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs today's great powers devote humanity's scarce resources toward ratcheting up a 'new cold war' in the face of a worsening climate crisis, McCoy's history is an important reminder that otherwise- ordinary individuals once helped end a global conflict that threatened nuclear holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41859904831621,"sku":"PR434103","price":79.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TTG93BPUGV9O.jpg?v=1789111823","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/cold-war-on-five-continents","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}