Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965 by Burleigh, Michael
Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965 (First Edition Hardcover Release in Archival Protection)
A Masterful, Sweeping Reassessment of the Cold War’s Forgotten "Hot" Wars and the Collapse of Empires
A Masterful, Sweeping Reassessment of the Cold War’s Forgotten "Hot" Wars and the Collapse of Empires
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965
- Author: Michael Burleigh
- Publisher: Viking (Penguin Group), New York
- Publication Date: 2013
- ISBN-10: 0670025453
- ISBN-13: 9780670025459
- Edition Details: First Edition, First Printing.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium quarter-cloth boards with paper sides, spine stamped in metallic gilt, complete with original illustrated dust jacket under an archival protective wrap.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 608 pages. Fully cross-referenced with internal regional mapping, archival text annotations, and detailed bibliographic index logs.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+ / Mint Structural State)
o Exterior / Boards: The cloth-backed hardcover boards are exceptionally flat, bright, and square, presenting in an immaculate, mint physical condition. The corners remain perfectly sharp with no softening or shelf friction. The spine is completely straight, tight, unbroken, and undamaged.
o Interior: The text block is robustly bound, tight, and pristine. Internal pages are exceptionally clean, bright white, clear, and fully intact. Entirely free of standard user highlighting, previous owner gift inscriptions, library stamps, dealer pencil markings, or dog-ears. This copy has clearly been meticulously maintained and looked after thus far.
o Special Protection: The book is safely preserved and protected within a premium fitted cellophane cover. -
The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
o Description: Complete, crisp, bright, and unclipped. Displays only very limited, micro-minimal signs of expected edge-wear and light shelf friction from careful storage. Entirely free of major chips, deep tears, or sun-bleached fading.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 2013, Small Wars, Faraway Places is prize-winning historian Michael Burleigh’s dazzling, deeply researched geopolitical masterpiece that completely upends the traditional narrative of the Cold War. While popular imagination records this era as a passive standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, Burleigh uses extensive new archival data to expose the brutal, often forgotten "hot" wars born from the final gasps of Western imperialism. Moving from Algeria and Kenya to Vietnam, Kashmir, the Philippines, and the Congo, the text tracks 18 distinct storylines of global insurrection, terrorism, and counter-insurgency campaigns as collapsing empires gave birth to a fractured modern world. Burleigh masterfully balances top-level diplomatic standoffs in Korea and Cuba with deeply personal portraits of charismatic local leaders and grassroots actors. The result is a searing, slyly humorous analysis of the legacy of colonial vacuums and a historical blueprint explaining how the United States evolved into the world's primary superpower enforcer. A magnificent first-edition specimen, this heavy volume stands as an indispensable primary anchor for collectors of international military history and modern political science.
Published in 2013, Small Wars, Faraway Places is prize-winning historian Michael Burleigh’s dazzling, deeply researched geopolitical masterpiece that completely upends the traditional narrative of the Cold War. While popular imagination records this era as a passive standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, Burleigh uses extensive new archival data to expose the brutal, often forgotten "hot" wars born from the final gasps of Western imperialism. Moving from Algeria and Kenya to Vietnam, Kashmir, the Philippines, and the Congo, the text tracks 18 distinct storylines of global insurrection, terrorism, and counter-insurgency campaigns as collapsing empires gave birth to a fractured modern world. Burleigh masterfully balances top-level diplomatic standoffs in Korea and Cuba with deeply personal portraits of charismatic local leaders and grassroots actors. The result is a searing, slyly humorous analysis of the legacy of colonial vacuums and a historical blueprint explaining how the United States evolved into the world's primary superpower enforcer. A magnificent first-edition specimen, this heavy volume stands as an indispensable primary anchor for collectors of international military history and modern political science.
Author Profile: Michael Burleigh
Dr Michael Burleigh (born 1955) is an exceptionally distinguished, award-winning British historian, author, and academic thinker. He read History at University College London before holding prestigious academic posts at Oxford, the London School of Economics, and Cardiff University. Celebrated for his groundbreaking, authoritative historical deconstructions, Burleigh won the international Samuel Johnson Prize for his monumental work The Third Reich: A New History. Renowned for balancing dense archival documentation with an incredibly engaging narrative pace, his literature focuses heavily on the psychological underpinnings of politics, systemic terrorism, and global conflicts. His written collections are highly regarded by global academics and antiquarian curators alike as foundational pillars of contemporary political history.
Dr Michael Burleigh (born 1955) is an exceptionally distinguished, award-winning British historian, author, and academic thinker. He read History at University College London before holding prestigious academic posts at Oxford, the London School of Economics, and Cardiff University. Celebrated for his groundbreaking, authoritative historical deconstructions, Burleigh won the international Samuel Johnson Prize for his monumental work The Third Reich: A New History. Renowned for balancing dense archival documentation with an incredibly engaging narrative pace, his literature focuses heavily on the psychological underpinnings of politics, systemic terrorism, and global conflicts. His written collections are highly regarded by global academics and antiquarian curators alike as foundational pillars of contemporary political history.
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