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The Cuban Missile Crisis

A Concise History

by (author) Don Munton & David A. Welch

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2011
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780199795703
    Publish Date
    Mar 2011
    List Price
    $49.99

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Description

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 the authors

Don Munton's profile page

David A. Welch is CIGI Chair of Global Security in the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo.

David A. Welch's profile page