Books published by Vanderbilt University Press

Philip Muehlenbeck assembles an international team of specialists to explore how religion informed the ideological and military clashes across the globe in the second half of the twentieth century.

As Race, Ethnicity, and the Cold War reveals, during the Cold War era there were no 'isolated incidents'. Like the butterfly flapping its wings and changing the weather on the other side of the globe, an instance of racial or ethnic hostility had ripple effects across a Cold War world of brinksmanship between bitter national rivals and ideological opponents.