De-Centering Cold War History: Local and Global Change

Cold War histories are often told as stories of national leaders, state policies and the global confrontation that pitted a Communist Eastern Bloc against a Capitalist West. De-Centering the Cold War takes a new analytical approach to reveal unexpected complexities in the historical trajectory of the Cold War.

This collaborative effort shapes a street-level history of the global Cold War era, one that uses the analysis of the local to rethink and reframe the wider picture of the global, connecting the political negotiations of individuals and communities at the intersection of places and of meeting points between ordinary people and political elites to the Cold War at large.