Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry During the Cold War

by Gregg A. Brazinsky

Book Overview

Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsky shows how both nations fought vigorously to establish their influence in newly independent African and Asian countries. By playing a leadership role in Asia and Africa, China hoped to regain its status in world affairs, but Americans feared that China's history as a nonwhite, anticolonial nation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469631709
• ISBN13: 9781469631707
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"