The Cuban Missile Crisis : a concise history / Don Munton, David A. Welch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munton, Don.

Contributor:

Welch, David A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.

Physical Description:

xv, 119 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

In The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History, Don Munton and David A. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the Cuban missile crisis into a brief 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 it from the US, Soviet, and Cuban angles, revealing the vital role 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 the literature and film for those who wish to explore further. The Cuban Missile Crisis is ideal for undergraduate courses on the 1960s, US foreign policy, the Cold War, twentieth-century world history, and comparative foreign policy.

Contents:

Dramatis Personae (and Positions in October 1962) xiii

Introduction: The REAL Thirteen Days? 1

Chapter 1 Background to the Crisis 7

US-Cuban Relations in Historical Perspective 9

The Bay of Pigs and Operation Mongoose 16

The Soviet Decision to Deploy 20

Chapter 2 Deployment and Discovery 32

Details of the Deployment 33

The Intelligence Game of Cat and Mouse 40

Warnings too Late 42

On the Eve of Crisis 46

Chapter 3 From Discovery to Blockade 48

The Storm Before the Calm 50

Narrowing the Options 54

Decision: The Calm Before the Storm 57

Chapter 4 The Perfect Storm 61

The Speech 62

Carrots and Sticks 66

Khrushchev and Kennedy Waver 72

The Crisis Heats Up 73

The Dobrynin Meeting 79

Climax and Resolution 80

Chapter 5 Aftermath 84

Removing the Missiles from Cuba 84

The Cuban Bomber Crisis 88

The Domestic and International Public Reaction 93

Steps Toward Detente: The Hot Line and Test Ban 94

Early Treatments of the Crisis 104

The Second Wave: "Critical Oral History" 105

Recent Accounts 106

Background and History 107

Aftermath 109

Document Collections and Websites 109

Film 110.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-112) and index.

ISBN:

0195178599

0195178602

OCLC:

64336195

Publisher Number:

9780195178609

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