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Written by one of America's most distinguished scholars of US-East Asian relations, The World Transformed examines the history of the last half century from a truly global perspective. Organized nine chapters and an Introduction and Conclusion, The World Transformed uses three broad themes-international relations, the international economy, and the developing world-to examine change on a global scale. Divided into three Parts, the text allows for instructors to assign chapters in both chronological and topical fashion.

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Author:   Michael H. Hunt
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.750kg
ISBN:  

9780199372348

ISBN 10:   0199372349
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   15 November 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface ; Introduction: The 1945 Watershed ; International Politics Reconfigured ; Wilson and Lenin as Rival Visionaries ; World War II and the Onset of the Cold War ; The Role of Nationalism ; The Global Economy in Transition ; The First Phase of Globalization Begins, 1870s-1914 ; Globalization Reborn, 1945 to the Present ; The Colonial System on the Brink ; Vulnerabilities of Empire ; The Appearance of the ""Third World"" ; PART I. HOPES AND FEARS CONTEND, 1945-1953 ; 1. The Cold War: Toward Soviet-American Confrontation ; Origins of the Rivalry ; From Cooperation to Conflict ; U.S. Policy in Transition ; Stalin's Pursuit of Territory and Security ; Stalin and the Postwar Settlement ; From Europe to the Periphery ; Drawing the Line in Europe ; The Nuclear Arms Race Accelerates ; Opening a Front in the Third World ; Limited War in Korea ; Superpower Societies in an Unquiet Time ; Soviet Society under Stress ; The U.S. Anti-Communist Consensus ; Conclusion ; 2. The International Economy: Out of the Ruins ; Anglo-American Remedies for an Ailing System ; Keynesian Economics and a Design for Prosperity ; The Bretton Woods Agreements ; The U.S. Rescue Operation ; Occupation and Recovery in Japan ; Recovery in Western Europe ; The American Economic Powerhouse ; Good Times Return ; Disney and the U.S. Economic Edge ; ""Coca-colonization"" and the Mass Consumption Model ; European Resistance to ""Americanization"" ; Conclusion ; 3. The Third World: First Tremors in Asia ; The Appeal of Revolution and the Strong State ; The Chinese Communist Triumph ; Vietnam's Revolutionary Struggle ; New States under Conservative Elites ; India's Status-quo Independence ; The Collaborative Impulse in the Philippines ; Conclusion ; PART II. THE COLD WAR SYSTEM UNDER STRESS, 1953-1968 ; 4. The Cold War: A Tenuous Accommodation ; The Beginnings of Coexistence ; Khrushchev under Pressure ; Crosscurrents in American Policy ; Crisis Points ; To the Nuclear Brink in Cuba ; The Vietnam Quagmire ; The Quake of '68 ; The American Epicenter ; The Ground Shifts Abroad ; Conclusion ; 5. Abundance and Discontent in the Developed World ; America at the Apogee ; Triumphant at Home and Abroad ; Warning Signs of Economic Troubles ; Recovery in Western Europe and Japan ; The Old World's New Course ; Fiat and Europe's Corporate Aristocracy ; The Second Japanese Miracle ; Voices of Discontent ; The New Environmentalism ; The Feminist Upsurge ; Critics of Global Economic Inequalities ; Conclusion ; 6. Third-World Hopes at High Tide ; Revolutionary Trajectories in East Asia ; The Maoist Experiment in China ; Vietnam's Fight for the South ; The Caribbean Basin: Between Reaction and Revolution ; Guatemala's ""Ten Years of Spring"" ; Cuba and the Revolution that Survived ; Decolonization in Sub-Saharan Africa ; Ghana and Nkrumah's African Socialism ; Colonial Legacies in Ghana and Beyond ; Remaking the Middle East and North Africa ; Economic Nationalism in Iran ; A New Order for Egypt and the Region ; Colonial Crisis in Algeria ; Conclusion ; PART III. FROM COLD WAR TO GLOBALIZATION, 1968-1991 ; 7. The Cold War comes to a Close ; The Rise and Fall of Detente ; The Nixon Policy Turnaround ; The Breshnev Era ; Western Europe and Detente ; The U.S. Retreat from Detente ; The Gorbachev Initiatives ; Glasnost, Perestroika, and a New Foreign Policy ; The Demise of the Soviet System ; Explaining the Cold War Outcome ; The Role of Leaders ; Impersonal Forces ; Conclusion ; 8. Global Markets: One System, Three Centers ; The United States and the North American Bloc ; The Erosion of U.S. Dominance ; The Free Market Faith ; The Rise of an East Asian Bloc ; Japan Stays on Course ; The Rise of the ""Little Dragons"" ; Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics ; Vietnam in China's Footsteps ; Revived Bloc Building in Europe ; Renewed Integration and the E.U. ; Social and Cultural Developments ; Post-'89 and the Opening to the East ; Conclusion ; 9. Divergent Paths in the Third World ; The Changing Face of Revolution ; Cambodia's Genocidal Revolution ; Religious Challenge in Iran ; Revolutionary Aftershock in the Middle East ; Opposition to Settler Colonialism ; South African Apartheid under Siege ; Conflict over Palestine ; Repression and Resistance in Guatemala ; Dreams of Development in Disarray ; Stalemated Economies ; The Population Explosion ; Women and Development ; Conclusion ; Conclusion: Globalization Ascendant, The 1990s and Beyond ; The Perils and Possibilities of Globalization ; Environmental Stresses ; One World or Two? ; An Emerging International Regime ; Globalization as U.S. Hegemony? ; ""The American Century"" ; Playing the Global Policeman ; Resistance Abroad ; Notes ; Index"

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Michael Hunt is the Everett H. Emerson Professor of History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A leading specialist on international history, Hunt is the author of several prize-winning books, including The Making of a Special Relationship: The United States and China to 1914 (Columbia, 1983. His long-term concern with U.S. foreign relations is reflected in several broad interpretive, historiographical, and methodological works, notably Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (Yale, 1987); and Crises in U.S. Foreign Policy: An International History Reader (Yale, 1996). He has also cultivated an interest in modern East Asia, resulting in The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy (Columbia, 1996), based on new sources, and Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968 (Hill and Wang, 1996).

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