| Description |
xx, 861 pages. : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Global century series |
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Global century series.
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| Contents |
The mushroom cloud and the iron curtain -- Communist revolutions -- Legacies of empire -- Two Europes, two Germanies -- Cities and consumers -- Eyeball to eyeball, shoulder to shoulder -- Color, creed, and coups -- East wind, west wind -- Cultures and families -- Superpower detente, communist confrontation -- Israel, oil, and Islam -- Capitalist revolutions, Asian style -- Challenges for the West -- Chips and genes -- The crisis of communism -- States, wealth, and order after the Cold War -- Goods and values |
| Summary |
This masterful history of the world in our time captures the ground-level drama of events & the larger contours of change in a period of global transformation. Global change has accelerated at an unprecedented pace in the last half-century, affecting every aspect of daily life, public & private, throughout the world. The trajectory of change points in different directions, with the world growing at once more connected & more fragmented. Commerce & migrations, television & the World Wide Web, suggest a story of growing interconnection. The proliferation of nation-states; the divisions rooted in religion, race, & material inequality; tell one of separation & conflict. At the heart of Reynolds' (international relations, Cambridge U.) is the political story of world upheavals, including the Cold War, the Chinese revolution, independence movements across the Third World, crises in Cuba and Vietnam, and the fall of the Soviet Union. But he considers these just the visible peaks of a continuing subterranean political change, which he charts as well. The history is not illustrated |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 703-819) and index |
| Subject |
History, Modern -- 1945-1989.
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History, Modern -- 1989-
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| LC no. |
99033903 |
| ISBN |
0393048217 |
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9780393048216 |
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9780393321081 |
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