Black Market, Cold War: Everyday Life in Berlin, 1946–1949
, by Paul SteegeNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780521864961 | 0521864968
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 3/5/2007
This book explains how and why Berlin became the symbolic capital of the Cold War. Paul Steege anchors his account of this emerging global conflict in the terrain of a city literally shattered by World War II. By focusing on what happened 'on the ground' in Berlin, the book shows how ordinary people mattered for the development of a global Cold War that dominated world affairs for four decades and offers an interpretive framework with which to reevaluate international conflict in the present.