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Global interdependence : the world after 1945 /

"Global Interdependence provides a new account of world history from the end of World War II to the present, an era when transnational communities began to challenge the long domination of the nation-state. In this single-volume survey, leading scholars elucidate the political, economic, cultur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Iriye, Akira (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Series:History of the world (Belknap Press)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • States and the changing equations of power / Wilfried Loth
  • Introduction
  • Postwar upheavals
  • A global cold war
  • New players
  • An emerging world order
  • Opening doors in the world economy / Thomas W. Zeiler
  • Introduction
  • Closed doors
  • Shut and unlocked doors
  • Prying open the door
  • The open door
  • Into the anthropocene: people and their planet / J.R. McNeill and Peter Engelke
  • Introduction
  • Energy and population
  • Climate and biological diversity
  • Cities and the economy
  • Cold war and environmental culture
  • Global cultures / Petra Goedde
  • Introduction
  • Cold war cultures
  • People and goods on the move
  • Challenging cultural norms
  • Human rights and globalization
  • The making of a transnational world / Akira Iriye
  • Introduction
  • Postwar transnationalism
  • The transnationalization of humanity
  • Layers of transnationalism
  • The twenty-first century.