070305 UE Guided Reading East European History - Cold War Historiography (2023S)

The provisional list of compulsory and recommended readings. Participants are expected to read up to 40-50 pages per week. A full breakdown of the required reading for each week will be provided at the first session on 18 April.

Autio-Sarasmo, Sari and Katalin Miklóssy. ‘Introduction: The Cold War from a new perspective.’ In Reassessing Cold War Europe, edited by Sari Autio-Sarasmo and Katalin Miklóssy, 1-15. London – New York: Routledge.
Barney, Timothy. Mapping the Cold War. Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Cain, Frank. Economic Statecraft during the Cold War. London-New York: Routledge, 2007.
Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Cambridge – London: Blackwell, 1990.
Högselius, Per, Arnje Kaijser and Erik van der Vleuten, Europe’s Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature. Basingstoke – New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and National Academy of Engineering. Finding Common Ground: U.S. Export Controls in a Changed Global Environment. Washington: National Academy Press, 1991.
Jackson, Ian. The Economic Cold War: America, Britain and East-West Trade, 1948-63. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.
Kotkin, Stephen. ‘The Kiss of Debt: The East Bloc Goes Borrowing.’ In The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, edited by Niall Ferguson, Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela and Daniel J. Sargen, 80-93. London – Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Libbey, James K. ‘CoCom, Comecon, and the Economic Cold War.’ Russian History 37, no. 2 (2010): 133-52.
Mazov, Sergey. A Distant Front in the Cold War. The USSR in West Africa and the Congo, 1956-1964. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.
Mëhilli, Elidor. ‘Technology and the Cold War.’ In The Routledge Handbook of the Cold War, edited by Artemy M. Kalinovski and Craig Daigle, 292-304. London – New York: Routledge, 2014.
Office of Technology Assessment. Technology and East-West Trade. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1979.
Perović, Jeronim. ‘The Soviet Union’s Rise as an International Energy Power: A Short History.’ In Cold War Energy: A Transnational History of Soviet Oil and Gas, edited by Jeronim Perović, 1-43. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Rankin, William. After the Map. Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century. Chicago – London: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Richelson, Jeffrey T. A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Romero, Frederico. ‘Cold War historiography at the crossroads.’ Cold War History 14, no. 4 (2014): 685-703.
Schot, Johan and Philip Scranton. ‘Making Europe: An introduction to the Series.’ In Per Högselius, Arne Kaijser and Erik van der Vleuten, Europe’s Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature (Basingstoke – New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), xi-xvii.