| Description |
1 online resource (x, 298 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-288) and index. |
| Contents |
NSC 68 and the problem of origins -- Multilateralism, the Soviet threat, and the origins of the Cold War -- Multilateralism, the dollar gap, and the origins of the Cold War -- The dollar gap and its discontents -- The British sterling-dollar crisis of 1949-1950 -- The origins and development of NSC 68 -- The political economy of rearmament. |
| Summary |
NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War re-examines the origins and implementation of NSC 68, the massive rearmament program that the United States embarked upon beginning in the summer of 1950. Curt Cardwell reinterprets the origins of NSC 68 to demonstrate that the aim of the program was less about containing communism than ensuring the survival of the nascent postwar global economy, upon which rested postwar US prosperity. The book challenges most studies on NSC 68 as a document of geostrategy and argues instead that it is more correctly understood as a document rooted in concerns for the US domestic political economy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cold War (1945-1989) |
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953.
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United States. |
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International relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1945-1953 |
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United States -- Foreign economic relations.
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International economic relations. |
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International economic relations -- History -- 20th century.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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National security. |
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Cold War.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cardwell, Curt. NSC 68 and the political economy of the early Cold War. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9780521197304 (DLC) 2011000634 (OCoLC)697808307 |
| ISBN |
9781139092968 (electronic book) |
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1139092960 (electronic book) |
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9781139091053 (eisbn) |
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1139091050 (eisbn) |
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9780511835247 (ebook) |
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0511835248 (ebook) |
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9780521197304 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0521197309 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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