“I don’t believe in seeking distance from your own time”. A talk with Odd Arne Westad about the limits of the Cold War and the challenges of Popular History

Odd Arne Westad is a historian whose work largely focuses on the Cold War as well as on Chinese and East Asian history. He is best known as a key voice of ‘new Cold War history’, an expanding field which, since the turn of the century, has sought to interpret the Cold War through an approach...

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Published in:Práticas da História
Main Author: Rui Lopes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2017-06-01
Online Access:https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/22988