{"product_id":"cold-war-crucible-hajimu-masuda-9780674598478","title":"Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe end of World War II did not mean the arrival of peace. The major powers faced social upheaval at home, while anticolonial wars erupted around the world. American-Soviet relations grew chilly, but the meaning of the rivalry remained disputable. \u003ci\u003eCold War Crucible\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the Korean War as the catalyst for a new postwar order. The conflict led people to believe in the Cold War as a dangerous reality, a belief that would define the fears of two generations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the international arena, North Korea's aggression was widely interpreted as the beginning of World War III. At the domestic level, the conflict generated a wartime logic that created dividing lines between \"us\" and \"them,\" precipitating waves of social purges to stifle dissent. The United States allowed McCarthyism to take root; Britain launched anti-labor initiatives; Japan conducted its Red Purge; and China cracked down on counterrevolutionaries. These attempts to restore domestic tranquility were not a product of the Cold War, Masuda Hajimu shows, but driving forces in creating a mindset for it. Alarmed by the idea of enemies from within and faced with the notion of a bipolar conflict that could quickly go from chilly to nuclear, ordinary people and policymakers created a fantasy of a Cold War world in which global and domestic order was paramount. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn discovering how policymaking and popular opinion combined to establish and propagate the new postwar reality, \u003ci\u003eCold War Crucible\u003c\/i\u003e offers a history that reorients our understanding of what the Cold War really was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hajimu Masuda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674598474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674598478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/10\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.50w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2015","brand":"Hajimu Masuda","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43987352387839,"sku":"9780674598478","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fff81b34-bdfe-4a57-9793-b5d357a38ffa.jpg?v=1683288476","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cold-war-crucible-hajimu-masuda-9780674598478","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}