On Top Of The World

Reminder: Free registration for the 2018 Great Lakes History Conference! What is the Cold War to a World Historian? Dave and Matt use Odd Arne Wested's Bancroft-winning book as a launching pad to examine the longue durée of the 20th-century and a global approach to the US-Soviet conflict that centers decolonization and the "Third World."   Recommendations:  The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times by Odd Arne Wested  Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer