A history of the Seventies : the political, cultural, social and economical developments that shaped the modern world /
Relegated to the back bench, the Seventies are often considered as no more than a bridge between the more momentous decades of the Sixties and Eighties. However, delving into this historical period, this book asks; how significant were the Seventies in terms of political, economic and cultural devel...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wilmington, DE :
Vernon Press,
2019.
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Colección: | Series in world history
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART 1 TYPOLOGY OF THE TIME SPAN 1945-2018
- 1. The Seventies' Gap
- 2. Transition Period
- PART 2 CLIMATE OF THE SEVENTIES
- PART 2.1 End of the Vietnam War
- 3. Vietnam
- 4. American Polarization of the Early Seventies
- 5. Further Setbacks
- 6. Paris Peace Accords
- 7. Nixon Policies
- PART 2.2 Watergate
- 8. The Scandal
- 9. Consequences
- PART 2.3 Financial Scandals
- 10. Franklin National Bank
- PART 2.4 Counterculture
- 11. The New Left
- 12. Introduction to Counterculture
- 13. Counterculture
- 14. Rock Music
- 15. Fashion
- 16. Drug Issues
- 17. Feminism
- 18. Radical Feminism
- 19. Environmentalism
- 20. Alternative communes
- 21. The Informality of the Seventies
- PART 2.5 Political Climate of the Seventies
- 22. Restiveness of the Early Seventies
- 23. The American Divide
- 24. The Violent International Atmosphere of the Seventies
- 25. Yom Kippur War
- PART 2.6 The Normality of the Seventies
- 26. Some General Data
- 27. Technology and Developments
- 28. Deindustrialization
- 29. Concorde
- 30. 1973-Laws
- 31. Books
- PART 3 THE NEW ECONOMIC ORDER 123
- PART 3.1 The Radical Economic Transformation during the Seventies
- 32. Bretton Woods Agreement
- 33. The Nixon Shock
- 34. Deregulation
- 35. Neoliberalism
- PART 3.2 1973-Oil Crisis
- 36. Oil Crisis
- 37. Some Economic Figure
- 38. Genesis of the Oil Shock
- 39. Further Considerations
- 40. Summing up
- 41. Cheap Money of the Seventies
- 42. Energy, Inflation and Unemployment
- 43. Lack of Alternative Solutions
- 44. Further Consequences of the 1973-Oil Crisis
- 45. Oil Crisis in the United States
- 46. Oil Crisis in Europe
- PART 4 CONSEQUENCES OF THE SEVENTIES
- 47. The Seventies as a Momentous Decade
- PART 4.1 End of the Long Boom
- 48. The Long Boom
- 49. Origins of the Long Boom
- 50. Baby Boom
- 51. The Good Life
- 52. Consequences of the End of the Long Boom
- PART 4.2 Cold War Evolution
- 53. Cold War Evolution
- 54. Cold War II
- PART 4.3 Oil and Gas Litigation
- 55. Oil Disputes
- PART 5 CONSEQUENCES OF THE OIL CRISIS OVER DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
- 56. Oil Crisis and Developing Countries
- PART 5.1 Ethiopia
- 57. Fall of the Ethiopian Empire
- 58. Post-Imperial Ethiopia
- 59. Ethiopia in the Eighties
- 60. Links and Further Development
- PART 5.2 Bangladesh
- 61. 1974-Famine
- PART 5.3 Chile
- 62. Salvador Allende
- 63. Alleged Foreign Meddling
- 64. Further Economic Factors
- 65. The Invisible Blockade
- 66. Relationship between the Nixon Shock and the 1973-Chilean Crisis
- PART 5.4 Iran
- 67. Iran of Mohammed Mosaddegh
- 68. Reza Pahlavi
- 69. Persepolis
- 70. The loss of the Western Support
- 71. Iranian Revolution
- 72. Destabilizing Effects
- 73. Resumption of Sunni-Shia Tensions
- 74. Radicalization of the Mideast
- 75. Consequences of the Iranian Revolution for Iraq
- 76. Lebanese Civil War
- 77. Hezbollah
- 78. Arab Spring
- PART 5.5 Egypt
- 79. Camp David
- PART 5.6 Iraq
- 80. Iraqi Factionalism
- 81. Ascent to Power of Saddam Hussein
- 82. Saddam Hussein
- 83. Influence of the Oil Crisis on the Mideast Recent History
- 84. Political Background of the Iran-Iraq War
- 85. Iran-Iraq War
- 86. Outline of Future Developments
- PART 6 SECOND OIL CRISIS OF THE SEVENTIES
- 87. 1979-Oil Crisis
- 88. The Mexican Crisis
- 89. Consequences of High Oil Prices
- PART 7 SOVIET UNION BREAKUP
- 90. Leonid Brezhnev
- 91. The Soviet Crisis
- 92. Costs of the Intelligence Service Activities
- 93. Background of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
- 94. The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
- 95. Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 96. Link between Oil and Soviet Crisis
- PART 8 LEGACIES OF THE SEVENTIES
- 97. Political Radicalism
- 98. Boom of the Media
- 99. Individualism as Legacy of the Seventies
- 100. Political Consent as Legacy of the Seventies
- 101. Summing Up.