by Michael Burleigh · Macmillan · tapa dura · ISBN 9780230752320
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«Small Wars, Far Away Places» is the historical essay by Michael Burleigh, published by Macmillan in hardcover (546 pages, in English).
The book analyzes the wars and crises that followed the fall of the Western colonial empires after 1945, from Korea to Cuba, via Algeria, Kenya and Vietnam. Burleigh combines international diplomacy, counterinsurgency and portraits of local leaders to show how these conflicts shaped the Cold War world.
The subtitle of the work is The Genesis of the Modern World, 1945-65, and the edition includes bibliographic references and an index.
Aimed at readers interested in twentieth-century history, decolonization and the Cold War.
Professor Michael Burleigh is a British historian, author, and commentator. He has written extensively on international relations, populism, terrorism, and modern European history. He was the first Engelsberg Chair of History and International Relations at the London School of Economics IDEAS centre (2019–2020) and remains a Senior Fellow there, working on a project about world orders.
