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The World Transformed 1945 to the Present (Paperback)

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ISBN13
9780199371020
יצא לאור ב
New York
מהדורה
2nd Revised edition
עמודים
624
פורמט
Paperback / softback
תאריך יציאה לאור
27 באוג׳ 2015
Through its lively and accessible narrative, The World Transformed: 1945 to Present provides students with an account of the political, socio-economic, and cultural developments that have shaped global events since 1945.
Through its lively and accessible narrative, The World Transformed: 1945 to Present provides students with an account of the political, socio-economic, and cultural developments that have shaped global events since 1945. The book's focus on three central and profoundly interconnected stories-the unfolding of the Cold War, the growth of the international economy, and the developing world's quest for political and economic independence-offers students a framework for understanding the past and making sense of the present. Attentive to overarching themes, individual historical figures, and diverse nations-and now substantially revised with a new Part 4 that examines world events since 1990-The World Transformed, Second Edition, is ideal for courses on post-1945 world history, international relations, or global topics.
מידע נוסף
מהדורה 2nd Revised edition
עמודים 624
פורמט Paperback / softback
ISBN10 0199371024
יצא לאור ב New York
תאריך יציאה לאור 27 באוג׳ 2015
תוכן עניינים Preface ; Introduction: The Post-1945 Watershed ; International Politics Reconfigured ; Wilson and Lenin as Rival Visionaries World War II and the Onset of the Cold War The Reach of Nationalism ; The Global Economy in Transition ; The First Phase of Globalization, 1870s-1914 ; Globalization Reborn, 1945 to the Present ; The Colonial System on the Brink ; Vulnerabilities of Empire ; The Appearance of the "Third World" ; Part One: Hopes and Fears Contend, 1945-1953 ; Chapter 1: The Cold War: Toward Soviet-American Confrontation ; Origins of the Rivalry ; From Cooperation to Conflict ; U.S. Policy in Transition ; Stalin's Pursuit of Territory and Security ; The Conflict Goes Global ; Drawing the Line in Europe ; The Nuclear Arms Race Accelerates ; Opening a Front in the Third World ; Superpower Societies in an Unquiet Time ; Soviet Society under Stress ; The U.S. Anti-Communist Consensus ; Chapter 2: The International Economy: Out of the Ruins ; Anglo-American Remedies for an Ailing System Keynesian Economics and a Design for Prosperity The Bretton Woods Agreements ; The U.S. Rescue Operation ; Occupation and Recovery in Japan ; Recovery in Western Europe ; The American Economic Powerhouse ; Good Times Return ; Disney and the U.S. Economic Edge ; "Coca-colonization" and the Mass Consumption Model ; European Resistance to "Americanization" ; Chapter 3: The Third World: First Tremors in Asia ; The Appeal of Revolution and the Strong State The Chinese Communist Triumph Vietnam's Revolutionary Struggle ; New States Under Conservative Elites ; India's Status-Quo Independence ; The Collaborative Impulse in the Philippines ; Part Two: The Cold War System under Stress, 1953-1968 ; Chapter 4. The Cold War: A Tenuous Accommodation ; The Beginnings of Coexistence Khrushchev Under Pressure Crosscurrents in American Policy ; Crisis Points ; To the Nuclear Brink in Cuba ; The Vietnam Quagmire ; The Quake of 1968 ; The American Epicenter ; The Ground Shifts Abroad ; Chapter 5. Abundance and Discontent in the Developed World ; America at the Apogee ; Triumph at Home and Abroad ; Warning Signs of Economic Troubles ; Recovery in Western Europe and Japan The Old World's New Course The Second Japanese Miracle ; Voices of Discontent ; The New Environmentalism The Feminist Upsurge Development and Inequality ; Chapter 6. Third-World Hopes at High Tide ; Revolutionary Trajectories in East Asia The Maoist Experiment in China Vietnam's Fight for the South ; The Caribbean Basin: Between Reaction and Revolution ; Guatemala's "Ten Years of Spring" Cuba and the Revolution that Survived ; Decolonization in Sub-Saharan Africa ; Ghana and Nkrumah's African Socialism ; Colonial Legacies in Ghana and Beyond ; Remaking the Middle East and North Africa ; Economic Nationalism in Iran ; A New Order for Egypt and the Region ; Colonial Crisis in Algeria ; Part Three: From Cold War to Globalization, 1968-1991 ; Chapter 7. The Cold War Comes to a Close ; The Rise and Fall of Detente The Nixon Turnaround The Brezhnev Era ; Western Europe and Detente ; The U.S. Retreat from Detente ; The Gorbachev Initiatives ; Glasnost, Perestroika, and a New Foreign Policy ; The Demise of the Soviet System ; Explaining the Cold War Outcome The Role of Leaders Impersonal Forces ; Chapter 8. Global Markets: One System, Three Centers ; The United States in Transition ; The Stagflation Crisis ; The Free Market Solution ; The Rise of an East Asian Bloc Japan Stays on Course The "Little Dragons" Stir ; Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics ; Vietnam in China's Footsteps ; Revived Bloc Building in Europe Renewed Integration and the E.U. Post-'89 and the Opening to the East ; Chapter 9. Divergent Paths in the Third World ; The Changing Face of Revolutions Cambodia's Genocidal Revolution Religious Challenge in Iran ; Revolutionary Aftershocks in the Middle East ; Opposition to Settler Colonialism Apartheid under Siege Conflict over Palestine ; Repression and Resistance in Guatemala ; Dreams of Development in Disarray ; Stalemated Economies The Population Explosion Women and Development ; Part Four: Integration and Fragmentation: the 1990s and Beyond ; Chapter 10. The Power and Perils of Globalization ; The Dimensions of a New Global Order ; The Pieces Fall into Place ; The Magic of the Market ; Creation's Destructive Side ; Disrupted Lives, Torn Societies, Hollow Politics ; The Specter of Inequality ; An Environment under Stress ; Saving People and the Planet ; Agents of Reform ; In the Name of Human Rights ; In Defense of Life on the Planet ; Chapter 11. A Regionally Configured World ; The New World's New Era ; Hegemonic Pretensions ; Latin America Beyond the Cold War ; Crosscurrents and Conflict in the Middle East ; The Rise of Political Islam ; Flash Points ; The Return of Asia ; Competing Development Models ; China's Long Regional Role ; The Old World's Old Problems ; The EU Project in Trouble ; The Geopolitical Pygmy ; Final Reflections on the Post-1945 World: The Limits and Uses of History ; Recommended Resources ; Notes ; Index