Global Century Series One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 M03 6 - 920 páginas "A magisterial account of our time by a distinguished historian."—Walter LaFeber, prize-winning author of The Clash Global change has accelerated at an unprecedented pace in the last half-century. The trajectory of change points in different directions, with the world growing at once more interconnected and more fragmented. Commerce and migrations, television and the World Wide Web suggest a story of growing interconnection, while at the same time the proliferation of nation-states and the divisions rooted in religion, race, and material inequality tell of separation and conflict. David Reynolds’s brilliant history captures both themes and grounds them vividly in the people and events of the last fifty years. Reynolds captures the great political events: the Cold War, the Chinese revolution, independence movements, Vietnam, and the fall of the Soviet Union, and broader developments: economic and population growth, the spread of cities, vast technological change, genetic manipulation, and the creation of a digital world. Carefully avoiding an encyclopedic approach, Reynolds integrates these themes into a narrative with authority, vision, and style. A volume in the Global Century series, books by outstanding scholars on the history of the world in the twentieth century—general editor, Paul Kennedy. |
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... CULTURE OF CONSUMPTION 157 122 67 108 136 6 Eyeball to Eyeball , Shoulder to Shoulder 166 EISENHOWER , KHRUSHCHEV , AND THE SPACE RACE 167 KENNEDY , KHRUSHCHEV , AND CUBA 175 DE GAULLE AND THE TRAVAILS OF WESTERN EUROPE 182 DUBČEK AND ...
... CULTURE OF CONSUMPTION 157 122 67 108 136 6 Eyeball to Eyeball , Shoulder to Shoulder 166 EISENHOWER , KHRUSHCHEV , AND THE SPACE RACE 167 KENNEDY , KHRUSHCHEV , AND CUBA 175 DE GAULLE AND THE TRAVAILS OF WESTERN EUROPE 182 DUBČEK AND ...
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... CULTURAL REVOLUTION 250 SOUTHEAST ASIA AND INDONESIA'S TURNING POINT 261 AMERICA'S ANGUISH , VIETNAM'S TRAGEDY 271 THE VIETNAM WAR AND AMERICA'S ALLIES 286 9 Cultures and Families THE CONSUMPTION OF CULTURE 290 EDUCATIONAL REVOLUTIONS ...
... CULTURAL REVOLUTION 250 SOUTHEAST ASIA AND INDONESIA'S TURNING POINT 261 AMERICA'S ANGUISH , VIETNAM'S TRAGEDY 271 THE VIETNAM WAR AND AMERICA'S ALLIES 286 9 Cultures and Families THE CONSUMPTION OF CULTURE 290 EDUCATIONAL REVOLUTIONS ...
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... cultural and social trans- formations ( especially the changing role of women ) , of youth movements and popular culture , and of the varied and sometimes contradictory impacts of technology . Indeed , it is this last perhaps that ...
... cultural and social trans- formations ( especially the changing role of women ) , of youth movements and popular culture , and of the varied and sometimes contradictory impacts of technology . Indeed , it is this last perhaps that ...
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... cultural limitations - all are daunting in the extreme . I recognized this from the start . But that recognition was , in fact , liberating . It freed me from spurious notions of definitiveness and made clear that this would have to be ...
... cultural limitations - all are daunting in the extreme . I recognized this from the start . But that recognition was , in fact , liberating . It freed me from spurious notions of definitiveness and made clear that this would have to be ...
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... culture . Death rates and birth rates , cities and suburbs , cars and fridges , phones and TVs - these have been the dynamos of modernity . Chapter 9 looks at the con- sumption of culture ( both “ high ” and “ low ” ) in art and music ...
... culture . Death rates and birth rates , cities and suburbs , cars and fridges , phones and TVs - these have been the dynamos of modernity . Chapter 9 looks at the con- sumption of culture ( both “ high ” and “ low ” ) in art and music ...
Contenido
The Mushroom Cloud an the Iron Curtain The Cover Story That Never Was | 9 |
Communist Revolutions Asian Stvle | 37 |
Japan under US Occupation | 39 |
China and the Endgame of Civil War | 42 |
The Cold War Turns Hot | 46 |
Consolidating Unity and Revolution in China | 54 |
Nationalism and Communism in Southeast Asia | 58 |
The Limits of Independence | 65 |
New Indochina WarsCommunist against Communist | 356 |
Afghanistan the Olympics and the Demise of Detente | 362 |
Israel Oil and Islam | 369 |
Arab Gamble Superpower Crisis | 370 |
Israel Egypt and the Palestinians | 376 |
The Gulf States and the Oil Boom | 382 |
The Iranian Revolution and Islamic Resurgence | 390 |
Capitalist Revolutions Asian Style | 403 |
Legacies of Empire | 67 |
The Partition of India | 68 |
One Land Two Peoples | 76 |
The Middle East after Britain and France | 80 |
Africa and the Persistence of Imperialism | 88 |
The White Commonweal I If between Britain and America | 98 |
Our Hemisphere and Their Island | 102 |
Two Europes Two Germanics | 108 |
The Socialist Transformation of Eastern Europe | 109 |
East and West | 117 |
Capitalism Welfare and Integration | 122 |
The Bomb and the Wall | 131 |
Cities and Consumers | 136 |
Births and Deaths | 137 |
Cities and Buildings | 144 |
Suburbs and Automobiles | 154 |
The Culture of Consumption | 157 |
Eyeball to Eyeball Shoulder to Shoulder | 166 |
Eisenhower Khrushchev and the Space Race | 167 |
Kenimlv Khrushchev and Cuba | 175 |
De Gaulle and the Travails of Western Europe | 182 |
Dubcek and the Taming of Eastern Europe | 194 |
Color Creed and Coups | 200 |
The Politics of Race in Black and White | 201 |
Ethnicity and Conflict in Black Africa | 213 |
Development and the Militarv in Latin America | 219 |
Christianitv between Church and State | 226 |
Holy War in the Middle East | 234 |
Politics Religion and Nationalism in South Asia | 242 |
East Wind West Wind | 249 |
The ireat Leap and the Cultural Revolution | 250 |
Southeast Asia and Indonesias Turning Point | 261 |
Americas Anguish Vietnams Tragedv | 271 |
The Vietnam War and Americas Allies | 286 |
Cultures and Families | 289 |
The Consumption of Culture | 290 |
Educational Revolutions | 301 |
Women on the Move | 308 |
Superpower Detente Communist Confrontation | 322 |
America Russia China | 323 |
West Germanv Looks East | 333 |
Western Europe Looks North and South | 338 |
America in Retreat Detente in Decline | 347 |
The West and Stagflation | 404 |
The Japanese Miracle | 411 |
The Asian Tigers | 420 |
The Tiger Cubs | 427 |
The Chinese Dragon | 435 |
The Indian Elephant | 441 |
Challenges for the West | 452 |
Thatcherism Reaganomics and the Crisis of Capitalism | 453 |
Debt Democracv and Revolution | 459 |
The Collapse of the State | 471 |
The New Cold War and Transatlantic Turmoil | 481 |
Chips and Genes | 494 |
Science Business and Government | 495 |
Telecommunications and the Satellite Revolution | 498 |
Computers and ihe Electronics Revolution | 506 |
The Information Societv and International Rivalries | 515 |
Molecular Biology and I he Revolution in Genetics | 519 |
Nuclear Power and the Environmental Counterrevolution | 527 |
The Crisis of Communism | 539 |
Gorbachev and the New Thinking | 540 |
The European Revolutions of l18 | 550 |
German Unification and European Union | 561 |
Soviet DisUnion | 569 |
The Chinese Exception | 576 |
States Wealth and Order after the Cold War | 586 |
Iraq Israel and the Search for Peace in the Middle | 587 |
Povertv and Despotism in SubSah a ran Africa | 598 |
Opening Up Economies States and Region | 609 |
Postcommunism and the Redefinition of Europe | 617 |
The Crisis of Asian Values? | 630 |
Goods and Values | 644 |
Solitary Superpower Anxious Americans | 645 |
Globalization and Its Discontents | 650 |
Fail hand Doubt | 657 |
Creating Life? | 666 |
Sustaining Life | 672 |
Social Life | 679 |
Epilogue | 693 |
Further Reading | 703 |
Notes | 711 |
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