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Title Beyond the Cold War : Lyndon Johnson and the new global challenges of the 1960s / edited by Francis J. Gavin and Mark Atwood Lawrence.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 301 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Reinterpreting history
Reinterpreting history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Lyndon Johnson and the challenges of economic globalization / Daniel Sargent -- Toward a new deal for the world? : Lyndon Johnson's aspirations to renew the twentieth century's Pax Americana / Patrick O. Cohrs -- Moving beyond the cold war : the Johnson administration, bridge-building, and détente / Thomas A. Schwartz -- Global war on poverty : the Johnson administration fights poverty at home and abroad, 1964-1968 / Sheyda Jahanbani -- LBJ's third war : the war on hunger / Nick Cullather -- LBJ and world population : planning the greater society one family at a time / Matthew Connelly -- Globalizing the Great Society : Lyndon Johnson and the pursuit of smallpox eradication / Erez Manela -- Thinking globally : U.S. foreign aid, Paul Ehrlich, and the emergence of environmentalism in the 1960s / Tom Robertson -- "More a gun at our heads than theirs" : the 1967 Arab oil embargo, Third World raw materials sovereignty, and American diplomacy / Christopher R.W. Dietrich -- The rise of human rights during the Johnson years / Sarah B. Snyder -- Globalized faith, radicalized religion, and the domestic sources of U.S. foreign policy / Andrew Preston.
Summary "In writing about international affairs in the 1960s, historians have naturally focused on the Cold War. The decade featured perilous confrontations between the United States and the Soviet Union over Berlin and Cuba, the massive buildup of nuclear stockpiles, the escalation of war in Vietnam, and bitter East-West rivalry throughout the developing world. As the world historical force of globalization has quickened and deepened, however, historians have begun to see that many of the global challenges that we face today.
Beyond the Cold War examines how the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson responded to this changing international landscape. To what extent did U.S. leaders understand these changes? How did they prioritize these issues alongside the geostrategic concerns that dominated their daily agendas and the headlines of the day? How successfully did Americans grapple with these long-range problems, with what implications for the future? What lessons lie in the efforts of Johnson and his aides to cope with a new and inchoate agenda of problems? By reconsidering the 1960s, this work suggests a new research agenda predicated on the idea that the Cold War was not the only - or perhaps even the most important - feature of international life in the postwar period."--Pub. desc.
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Subject Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 -- Political and social views.
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
Political and social views.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1963-1969.
United States.
International relations.
Chronological Term 1963-1969
Subject United States -- Foreign economic relations.
International economic relations.
World politics -- 1955-1965.
Chronological Term 1955-1965
Subject World politics -- 1965-1975.
Chronological Term 1965-1975
Subject World health -- Government policy -- United States.
World health.
Government policy.
Economic assistance, American.
Economic assistance, American.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
World politics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations.
Chronological Term 1955-1975
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Gavin, Francis J., editor.
Lawrence, Mark Atwood, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Beyond the Cold War. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014] 9780199790692 (DLC) 2013023263 (OCoLC)854848056
ISBN 9780199790777 (electronic book)
0199790779 (electronic book)
9780199790692 (alkaline paper)
0199790698 (alkaline paper)
9780199790708 (alkaline paper)
0199790701 (alkaline paper)