Transforming the World
Global Political History since World War II
Published on 11. December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-0-333-77200-3 (ISBN)
Description
An ambitious and engaging narrative survey that charts the history of the world from a political perspective, from 1937 to the post-9/11 era. Providing a wide-ranging assessment of global interactions in peace and war since World War II, Robbins connects the crises, conflicts and accommodations that have brought us to the still-troubled present.
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Edition
2012
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
593 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-77200-3 (9780333772003)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-29562-0
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Person
KEITH ROBBINS was formerly Professor of History at Bangor and Glasgow universities in the UK, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales. He has held the posts of President of the Historical Association, and Editor of History. He is the author of over 20 books, 8 edited books, and 120 scholarly articles on political, military, religious and international history, and is the general editor of six major historical series.
Content
Chronology.- Maps.- Introduction: Grasping Global History.- PART I: ENDING WAR, BUILDING PEACE.- Struggles for Mastery.- Policemen Meeting.- Outcomes and Anticipations.- PART II 1945-1955: MAKING A COLD PEACE.- European Alternatives.- The United Nations and the United States.- The Middle East.- South Asia.- East Asia.- PART III: 1955-1965: TO THE BRINK AND BACK.- Superpowers and Subordinates: The Middle East and Europe.- Continental Confrontations: Castro, Kennedy, Khruschev.- Africa: Emergences and Emergencies.- Algeria: Found and Lost.- Asian Accommodations.- PART IV: 1965-1975: OLD PATTERNS AND NEW PERMUTATIONS.- Asian Variations.- Superpowers Challenged.- Security and Cooperation in Europe.- Overlapping Linkages: A Mediterranean World.- Africa's Worlds.- PART V: COMING TO CONCLUSIONS 1975-1989.- Europeans: Identifying a Common Home?.- The Middle East: Putting its World to Rights?.- A Question of Latitude: 'North' and 'South'.- Afghanistan to Sri Lanka: South Asia?.- East Asia/Pacific: Flexing Muscles?.- Gorbachev and Reagan: Turning Point 1985-89.- PART VI: 1991-2011: NEW WORLD ORDERS?.- Superpowers: Rethinking Required.- The Middle East: Still at the Centre.- Identifying Multipolar Complexity.