The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History - Softcover

Munton, Don; Welch, David A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199795703 ISBN 13: 9780199795703

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

In The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History, Second Edition, Don Munton and David A. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the Cuban missile crisis into a brief and accessible narrative history. The authors draw on newly available documents to provide a comprehensive treatment of its causes, events, consequences, and significance. Stressing the importance of context in relation to the genesis, conduct, and resolution of the crisis, Munton and Welch examine events from the U.S., Soviet, and Cuban angles, revealing the vital role that differences in national perspectives played at every stage. While the book provides a concise, up-to-date look at this pivotal event, it also notes gaps and mysteries in the historical record and highlights important persistent interpretive disputes. The authors provide a detailed guide to relevant literature and film for those who wish to explore further. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the crisis, this revised and updated edition of The Cuban Missile Crisis is ideal for undergraduate courses on the 1960s, U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, twentieth-century world history, and comparative foreign policy.

About this title

About the Author

Don Munton is Professor and Founding Chair of International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia.

David A. Welch is CIGI Chair of Global Security and Interim Director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0199795703
• ISBN 13: 9780199795703
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 144