| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 319 pages) |
| Contents |
Globalizing production in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan -- Dollar devaluations -- Fighting inflation -- Debt crisis and globalization -- An age of migrations -- Dictatorship and democracy -- The rise of China -- The legacy of partition in India and Pakistan : 1947-1948 -- Partition in Palestine : 1948 -- Revolution and war in Iran and Iraq : 1978-1980 -- Revolution and war in Afghanistan -- The aftermath of 9/11 -- Global climate change |
| Summary |
This best-selling book examines the political, economic, and environmental changes that affect people's lives in the United States and around the world. Using an accessible, narrative approach Robert Schaeffer explains contemporary global processes and developments. Just as a storm that moves across an area has differing local, regional and even national and global impacts that are welcome to some and disastrous to others, global events can have very different consequences--good and bad--for people in different settings. Though many of the global changes that he examines are interconnected, t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Globalization.
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Social history -- 1945-
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World politics -- 1945-1989.
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Economic history -- 1945-
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Global environmental change.
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globalism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
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Economic history
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Global environmental change
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Globalization
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Social history
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World politics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780742565197 |
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074256519X |
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