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Thomas Borstelmann, Author . Harvard Univ. $35 (384p) ISBN 978-0-674-00597-6
In rich, informing detail enlivened with telling anecdote, Cornell historian Borstelmann unites under one umbrella two commonly separated strains of the U.S. post–WWII experience: our domestic political and cultural history, where the Civil...
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Thomas Borstelmann, Author Oxford University Press, USA $75 (320p) ISBN 978-0-19-507942-5
In this thorough and incisive analysis, Borstelmann, who teaches history at Cornell University, shows how the United States' post-World War II policy hinged not on South Africa's 1948 establishment of apartheid but on the region's supply of weapons-g
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Thomas Borstelmann. Princeton Univ., $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-691-14156-5
Keeping contemporary history timely and accessible, Borstelmann (The Cold War and the Color Line) shows the significance of 1970s American politics, culture, and religion on the following decades. As a world-renowned historian at the University of...
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Thomas Borstelmann. Columbia Univ, $32 (272p) ISBN 978-0-231-19352-8
Borstelmann (The 1970s), a professor of modern world history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, explores ”how Americans thought and think about non-Americans” in this incisive, pointillist account. Casting a critical eye on U.S. exceptionalism...
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