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Article: The Cold War: An International History, 1947-1991.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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The Cold War: An International History, 1947-1991, by S.J. Ball. London, Arnold (distributed by St. Martin's Press), 1998. xii, 260 pp. $18.95.
While the Cold War raged, the desire to exonerate, accuse, or vilify one or the other superpower frequently prejudiced scholarly interpretations of the conflict. Now that the Cold War is over, there is the possibility that new works of scholarship will revel in triumphalism or sulk in despair and as a result add little to our understanding of an era that spanned over four decades. Thankfully, the latest examination of the Cold War by S.J. Ball avoids this new intellectual pitfall. He pays little attention to the origins ...