You are here

FAU Collections » FAU Research Repository » FAU Theses and Dissertations

Cuban missile crisis: An analysis of a quarter century of historiography

Download pdf | Full Screen View

Date Issued:
1990
Summary:
The perception of the Cuban missile crisis created in the 1960s has undergone drastic changes in the quarter century following that event. The emerging picture in the 1990s is a very different one from the original limited view of respectful acclaim and admiration for President John F. Kennedy and his advisors. Historians of the crisis have rushed to develop new perspectives without full use of all material available. Existing American declassifications help explain Soviet motives but do not justify them. Soviet and Cuban archival sources remain virtually untapped. Existing oral histories require documentary confirmation. The bulk of all multi-national archival material remains unavailable. The study of the crisis has not passed beyond its preliminary stages with the full story still to be written.
Title: The Cuban missile crisis: An analysis of a quarter century of historiography.
994 views
114 downloads
Name(s): Machin, Maria A.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
O'Sullivan, John, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1990
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 415 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The perception of the Cuban missile crisis created in the 1960s has undergone drastic changes in the quarter century following that event. The emerging picture in the 1990s is a very different one from the original limited view of respectful acclaim and admiration for President John F. Kennedy and his advisors. Historians of the crisis have rushed to develop new perspectives without full use of all material available. Existing American declassifications help explain Soviet motives but do not justify them. Soviet and Cuban archival sources remain virtually untapped. Existing oral histories require documentary confirmation. The bulk of all multi-national archival material remains unavailable. The study of the crisis has not passed beyond its preliminary stages with the full story still to be written.
Identifier: 14667 (digitool), FADT14667 (IID), fau:11459 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1990.
Subject(s): Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962
Cuba--History--1959-
United States--Foreign relations--1961-1963
Held by: Florida Atlantic University Libraries
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14667
Sublocation: Digital Library
Use and Reproduction: Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder.
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Host Institution: FAU
Is Part of Series: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections.