A brief history of now : the past and present of global power / Diego Olstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olstein, Diego Adrián, author.

Contributor:

Henry Putney Beers Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Modern--19th century.

History, Modern.

History, Modern--20th century.

History, Modern--21st century.

World politics--19th century.

World politics.

World politics--20th century.

World politics--21st century.

Economic history--19th century.

Economic history.

Economic history--20th century.

Economic history--21st century.

Physical Description:

xxi, 364 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Setting the Frame

Now

Economic Globalization

World Hegemony

Democracy

Socioeconomic Inequality Within and Between Societies

Technological Innovations

Climate Change

Now and then: Trajectories in Global History

2. We Were All Brits (1851

1914)

Hegemony, What Is It?

Industrial Revolution

Which Pyramid?

The Industrial "Gradualution"

Democratic Revolution

The Synergic Revolutions

Non-Identical Twins

An Experiment with Synergy

Another Set of Twins: Free Trade and Comparative Advantage

Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour: At Home in Western Europe

Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour: Playing "Catch-22" with Gunpowder Empires

Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour and the American Divergence

Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour: The Scramble for Africa

First Globalization and Britannization

Spoiling the Hegemonic Party: The Exceptional Outliers

All Aboard! Welcome to the Global Train

3. Until the "Big Brexit" (1914

1945)

A Globally Convoluted Interplay

Contested Hegemony, Head-On

A Bigger Brother

A Strange Couple

A Global Communist Revolution

Surprising Success

By Reaction Against

Directly Guided

By Imitation

Failure, the Mother of Improvisation

The Carousel of Revolution

The Other Carousel: Reaction

A World Safe for Democracy

It's the Economy, Stupid!

A Game Changer

Second Round

So Long to the Global Train!

4. When We Became Americans (1946

1973)

The World Series

Hegemony and Empire: Great Britain

Hegemony and Empire: The United States

Two Centuries at Odds

-And Counting

A Fourfold Big Stick

A Huge Carrot Named the U.S. Economy

An Alluring Dream Named the American Dream

The Swirling Synergy of the American Triplets

Great Britain: 20

-United States: 34. A Different Model for World Hegemony

5. Or Else (1946

A Very Straightforward Global Story for a Very Straightforward Answer

From War to War to Cold War

On the Right Side of the World Hegemon

On the Wrong Side of the Counter-Hegemon

The Soviet Union and China

The Counter-Hegemonic Triplets: Powerful, but not as Much

Under the Tracks of Entwined Nationalism and Socialism: Peron, Evita, and the Socialist Fatherland

Entwined Nationalism and Socialism Throughout the Latin American Oligarchic Republics

Entwined Nationalism and Socialism in Recently Emancipated Colonies Throughout the Middle East

Straightforward: From Decolonization into Entwined Nationalism and Socialism in South Asia, South East Asia, and Africa

Entwined Nationalism and Socialism Around the World: The Global Rise of Anti-Hegemonic Party States

Pyramids into Diamonds

6. All Together Now: Becoming Global Citizens (1968

2003)

The Revolutionary Processes (1968

1991): E Pluribus Unum (One Out of Many)

1968, A Global Revolt

1973, The Tom Kippur or Ramadan War

1978, Deng Xiaoping Means "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics"

1982, Malvinas/Falkland Islands War

1985, Gorbachev Means Glasnost and Perestroika

1989, A Global Revolution

1991, Hegemony and Globalization Reconciled

Everything Falling into Place

The Revolutionary Results: Neoliberal Reforms, Stronger Than Revolutions

Neoliberalism Means Growing Inequalities: The "Great Bifurcation"

From Melting Pot to Salad Bowl

Third Wave of Democracy

7. Falling Apart. Back to Nationalism (2003

2020)

Hegemony and Globalization Reconciled but Spiraling Down

Shaken American World Hegemony

2007 Shaken Neoliberal Globalization

Neoliberalism Challenged Around the World

A Couple of Trump Cards: Technological and Ecological Disruptions

8. The Big Picture: Overall Patterns Amidst Convoluted Developments

A Brief Recapitulation of Convoluted Developments

Overall Patterns: Fivefold Correspondences

Overall Patterns and Some of the Questions of the Present and Future

Global Trajectories Crystalized in Global Regimes.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Putney Beers Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030824198

3030824195

OCLC:

1258670481

Publisher Number:

99988778970