Beyond the Cold War Lyndon Johnson and the New Global Challenges of the 1960s

"Distinguished historians Frank Gavin and Mark Lawrence have assembled an all-star cast of young scholars of U.S. foreign relations to shed new light on the 1960s, a decade we thought we already knew perhaps too well. These excellent essays focus on contemporary global issues of the greatest importance-environmental change, energy, poverty and disease, human rights, religion, globalization-and trace them back to their emergence as policy concerns during the Lyndon Johnson administration. The authors challenge and expand our understanding of national security in a global age. This is some of the best of the new U.S. international history." --Thomas Borstelmann, author of The Cold War and the Color Line"This exemplary collection sets the agenda for a new phase in the scholarship on the international history of the 1960s."--Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University