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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Seth Givens , Ingo Trauschweizer , Walter MomperPublisher: Ohio University Press Imprint: Ohio University Press ISBN: 9780821425343ISBN 10: 082142534 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 29 July 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of illustrations Foreword WALTER MOMPER Introduction INGO TRAUSCHWEIZER Part I. Postwar to Cold War, 1945–1957 Gone but Not Forgotten: The Status of Berlin and the Founding of the West German State, 1944–1952 SAMUEL MINER The First Crisis: US Army Planning and the Defense of Berlin, 1945–1950 SETH GIVENS The United States, Berlin, and the 1953 Uprising CHRISTIAN F. OSTERMANN Abduction City: Abductions by the GDR State Security Service in Cold War Berlin SUSANNE MUHLE Part II. Crisis, 1958–1971 The Never-Ending Berlin Crisis and the Limits of Alliance Politics ERIN MAHAN The Berlin Wall in History and Memory HOPE M. HARRISON Between Freedom’s Symbol and Casus Belli: Berlin in the Johnson and Nixon Years THOMAS SCHWARTZ Part III. Beyond the Cold War in Berlin, 1972–1990s Trade and Energy Diplomacy as Catalysts for Détente: Berlin and the Schmidt and Kohl Governments STEPHAN KIENINGER Berlin 1989 and the New Atlanticism: US and West German Visions for the Post–Cold War Architecture of Europe PETER RIDDER Performing the Wall after Its Fall MATT CORNISH Contributors IndexReviews"This rich and fascinating collection of essays treats the story of Cold War Berlin with the complexity that it deserves. The authors position Berlin as a crucial site of German, European, and transatlantic history from the end of World War II to the Russo-Ukrainian War. -- Adam R. Seipp, Texas A&M University This volume’s intriguing essays convincingly demonstrate Berlin’s lasting place in the transatlantic world―as a strategic asset and political battleground no less than a symbolic site where contesting visions of Germany’s past and future become tangible. Their insights matter today as a new cold war threatens to redivide Europe, reminding readers of the complications inherent in any attempt to reconcile American and Russian interests in the ""old continent"" with those of the diverse nation-states it hosts. -- Andreas W. Daum, University at Buffalo, SUNY" This rich and fascinating collection of essays treats the story of Cold War Berlin with the complexity that it deserves. The authors position Berlin as a crucial site of German, European, and transatlantic history from the end of World War II to the Russo-Ukrainian War. -- Adam R. Seipp, Texas A&M University Author InformationSeth Givens is a historian at the United States Marine Corps History Division in Quantico, Virginia. He has published on U.S. policy, strategy, and military operations in the Cold War. Ingo Trauschweizer is a professor of history and former director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University, where he teaches courses on American and global military history, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. His books include The Cold War U.S. Army: Building Deterrence for Limited War and Maxwell Taylor’s Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |