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The world transformed : 1945 to the present : a documentary reader / [compiled by] Michael H. Hunt.

D839.3 .W67 2004

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Format:: Book
Contributor:: Hunt, Michael H.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: History, Modern--1945-1989--Sources.; History, Modern.; History, Modern--1989---Sources.
Genre:: Sources.
Physical Description:: xviii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2004]
Contents:: International Politics Reconfigured; Wilson and Lenin as Rival Visionaries; World War II and the Onset of the Cold War; The Role of Nationalism; A Global Economy in Transition; The First Phase of Globalization Begins, 1870s-1914; Globalization Reborn, 1945 to the Present; The Colonial System on the Brink; Vulnerabilities of Empire; The Appearance of the "Third World"; Part I Hopes and Fears Contend, 1945-1953; 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; Stalin and the Postwar Settlement; From Europe to the Periphery; Drawing the Line in Europe; The Nuclear Arms Race Accelerates; Opening a Front in the Third World; Limited War in Korea; Superpower Societies in an Unquiet Time; Soviet Society under Stress; The U.S. Anti-Communist Consensus; Conclusion; 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"; 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 II The Cold War System Under Stress, 1953-1968; 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 '68; The American Epicenter; The Ground Shifts Abroad; 5 Abundance and Discontent in the Developed World; America at Apogee; Triumphant at Home and Abroad; Warning Signs of Economic Troubles; Recovery in Western Europe and Japan; The Old World's New Course; Fiat and Europe's Corporate Aristocracy; The Second Japanese Miracle; Voices of Discontent; The New Environmentalism; The Feminist Upsurge; Critics of Global Economic Inequalities; 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 at High Tide in Sub-Saharan Africa; Ghana and Nkrumah's African Socialism; Colonial Legacies in Ghana and Beyond; Remaking North Africa and the Middle East; Economic Nationalism in Iran; A New Order for Egypt and the Region; Colonial Crisis in Algeria; Part III From Cold War to Globalization, 1968-1991; 7 The Cold War comes to a Close; The Rise and Fall of Détente; The Nixon Policy Turnaround; The Breshnev Era; Western Europe and Détente; The U.S. Retreat from Détente; 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; 8 Global Markets: One System, Three Centers; The United States and the North American Bloc; The Erosion of U.S. Dominance; The Free Market Faith; The Rise of an East Asian Bloc; Japan Stays on Course; The "Little Dragons" in Japan's Shadow; Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics; Vietnam in China's Footsteps; Revived Bloc Building in Europe; Renewed Integration and the E.U.; Social and Cultural Developments; Post-'89 and the Opening to the East; 9 Divergent Paths in the Third World; The Changing Face of Revolution; Cambodia's Genocidal Revolution; Religious Challenge in Iran; Revolutionary Aftershock in the Middle East; Opposition to Settler Colonialism; South African Apartheid under Siege; Conflict over Palestine; Repression and Resistance in Guatemala; Dreams of Development in Disarray; Stalemated Economies; The Population Explosion; Women and Development; Conclusion: Globalization Ascendant, The 1990s and Beyond; The Perils and Possibilities of Globalization; Environmental Stresses; One World or Two?; An Emerging International Regime; Globalization as U.S. Hegemony?; "The American Century"; Playing the Global Policeman; Resistance Abroad.
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:: 0312402961
OCLC:: 54353445

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