{"product_id":"cold-war-on-five-continents-a-global-history-of-empire-and-espionage-hardcover","title":"Cold War on Five Continents: A Global History of Empire and Espionage - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlfred W. McCoy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA provocative analysis of the deadly Cold War conflicts that devastated countries and communities far from Moscow and Washington\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eTransforming battlegrounds in Africa, Asia, and Latin America into veritable hellscapes, the surrogate wars of the Cold War era left behind a legacy of collective trauma and social conflict that have persisted into the present. In this ambitious work, Alfred W. McCoy uses a bottom-up, outside-in approach to offer an unexpected new perspective on the longest, most consequential conflict in modern history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e McCoy renders an intimate portrait of both embattled covert operatives and committed antiwar protesters, thus humanizing the history of the Cold War--a history that has too often been told in impersonal terms of economic growth, nuclear arsenals, or diplomatic ententes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As today's great powers devote humanity's scarce resources toward ratcheting up a \"new cold war\" in the face of a worsening climate crisis, McCoy's history is an important reminder that otherwise- ordinary individuals once helped end a global conflict that threatened nuclear holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlfred W. McCoy\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of The Politics of Heroin, the classic study of global drug trafficking that the CIA attempted to suppress. Among his two dozen published books, the most recent are \u003cem\u003eIn the Shadows of the American Century \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 608\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.2 x 9.06 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 06, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978237903149,"sku":"9798888905029","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/rivwe5AdK59798888905029.webp?v=1775801198","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/cold-war-on-five-continents-a-global-history-of-empire-and-espionage-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}