| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 471 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to history |
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Blackwell companions to history.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Twentieth Century International History: The Changing Face of Empire / Gordon Martel -- Part I: Undertones: -- Imperialism / John Mackenzie -- Nationalism / Richard Bosworth -- Internationalism / Andrew Webster -- A Shrinking World / Jeffrey Engel -- A Changing Diplomatic World / Ralph Blessing -- Part II: The First World War and Its Consequences: -- The Triple Alliance / Jürgen Angelow and Gordon Martel -- The Ententes, 1894-1914 / Keith Neilson -- The July Crisis / Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. -- Wartime Promises and Postwar Europe / David Dutton -- Wartime Promises and Postwar Empires / Matthew Hughes -- Envisioning a New World Order / Ian D. Thatcher -- The Reality of a New World Order / Erik Goldstein -- The Legacy of the First World War: Gaynor Johnson -- Part III: The Coming of the Second World War: -- Why International Finance Mattered: 1919-1939 / Robert D. Boyce -- The Far Eastern Crisis and the Balance of Power, 1920-1941 / Greg Kennedy -- The Challenge to Empire in the Middle East and Asia / Gavin D. Brockett -- Mussolini's War in Ethiopia / Giuseppe Finaldi -- The Challenge in Europe, 1935-1941 / P.M.H. Bell -- Appeasement / Andrew Crozier -- Stalin and the West / Alexander Hill -- The United States and the End of Isolation / Justus D. Doenecke -- Part IV: From Grand Alliance to Cold War: -- The Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 / Warren F. Kimball -- A Bipolar World / Saki Ruth Dockrill -- A Third World? / Norrie MacQueen -- Making the New Europe: European Integration since 1950 / Piers Ludlow -- The Making of Modern Southeast Asia in the Age of Decolonization & the Cold War / Kevin Ruane -- The Middle East, 1945-1991: The Making of a Mare's Nest / Saul Kelly -- The Sino-Soviet Split / Sergey Radchenko -- Part V: A New World Order? -- The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the End of the Cold War / Martin McCauley -- War and Peace in the Global Community, 1989-2001 / Lloyd E. Ambrosius -- Globalization / Alfred E. Eckes -- Terrorism: September 11, 2001 and its Consequences / Michael Bauer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-458) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World politics -- 20th century.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Martel, Gordon.
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| LC no. |
2006027488 |
| ISBN |
0470690925 |
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0470766298 (electronic bk.) |
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1405125748 (electronic) |
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1405177306 |
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9780470690925 |
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9780470766293 (electronic bk.) |
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9781405125741 (electronic) |
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9781405177306 |
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