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International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond 2nd New edition [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 616 pages, height x width: 246x189 mm, weight: 1368 g, 3 Line drawings, black and white; 47 Halftones, black and white; 6 Tables, black and white
  • Izdošanas datums: 29-May-2008
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415438950
  • ISBN-13: 9780415438957
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 616 pages, height x width: 246x189 mm, weight: 1368 g, 3 Line drawings, black and white; 47 Halftones, black and white; 6 Tables, black and white
  • Izdošanas datums: 29-May-2008
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415438950
  • ISBN-13: 9780415438957
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This major global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward. Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors cover events in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas from the last century and beyond. Among the areas this book covers are:









the decline of European hegemony over the international order the diffusion of power to the two superpowers the rise of newly independent states in Asia and Africa the course and consequences of the major global conflicts of the twentieth century.



This second edition is thoroughly updated, and includes extended coverage of European integration, the rise of supra-governmental organizations, and the `global War on Terror'.



A support website provides supplementary exercises, questions and tutor guidance.
List of illustrations
xiv
Notes on authors xvii
Acknowledgements xviii
Note on the text xx
List of abbreviations
xxi
Introduction 1(1)
The second edition
1(1)
Introduction to the twentieth century
2(3)
Great Power Rivalry and The World War, 1900-1917
5(27)
Introduction
5(1)
The Great Powers, power politics and the states system
6(9)
The long-term causes of the First World War
15(6)
From one crisis to the next, 1905-13
21(3)
1914: decisions for war
24(2)
The triple stalemate
26(3)
Conclusion
29(1)
Recommended reading
30(2)
The Search for European Stability, 1917-29
32(26)
Introduction
32(1)
The `new diplomacy'
33(4)
The armistice
37(2)
The Paris peace settlement
39(5)
The Paris peace settlement in Central and Eastern Europe
44(2)
The implementation of the peace
46(4)
The Locarno era
50(4)
Conclusion
54(1)
Recommended reading
54(4)
Japan, China and the Origins of The Pacific War, 1900-41
58(23)
Introduction
58(1)
The First World War in East Asia
59(3)
The Washington Conference
62(2)
Chinese nationalism and the Northern Expedition
64(2)
The Manchurian Crisis
66(3)
Japan's `Monroe Doctrine' for East Asia
69(2)
The Sino-Japanese War
71(3)
Towards the Pacific War
74(2)
Conclusion
76(2)
Recommended reading
78(3)
The European Colonial Empires, 1900-45
81(26)
Introduction
81(1)
Empires and power
82(6)
Ireland and the British Dominions
88(2)
Empire and nationalism in the Middle East
90(5)
India in crisis
95(3)
Rationalization and resistance in South-East Asia
98(2)
The colonial empires in Africa
100(2)
The Second World War and empire
102(2)
Conclusion
104(1)
Recommended reading
105(2)
The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1900-48
107(26)
Introduction
107(1)
The origins and development of Zionism
108(2)
Palestinian nationalism
110(1)
The twice-promised land
111(2)
The mandate and British policy
113(3)
Palestine and the Second World War
116(2)
Partition and the end of the mandate
118(3)
Arab and Zionist institution-building
121(4)
The 1948 war
125(4)
Conclusion
129(1)
Recommended reading
130(3)
`Good Neighbors'? The United States and the Americas, 1900-45
133(22)
Introduction
133(1)
The Monroe Doctrine and the imperial thrust
134(2)
The Spanish---American War
136(1)
Theodore Roosevelt and the American empire
137(2)
Woodrow Wilson, the First World War and the Americas
139(2)
Wilsonian visions defeated
141(1)
From boom to bust
142(2)
From gunboat diplomacy to the `Good Neighbor' policy
144(4)
Pan-Americanism and the approach of war
148(2)
The Second World War and the Monroe Doctrine
150(2)
Conclusion
152(1)
Recommended reading
153(2)
The Path to European War, 1930-39
155(33)
Introduction
155(1)
The dual crisis
156(2)
The collapse of the Weimar Republic
158(3)
Revolution and expansion
161(4)
Diplomacy and deterrence
165(7)
Isolation and co-existence
172(4)
From Munich to European war
176(7)
Conclusion
183(2)
Recommended reading
185(3)
The Second World War, 1940-45
188(28)
Introduction
188(1)
From European war to World War
189(7)
The Axis at war
196(5)
The Grand Alliance at war
201(6)
The collapse of the Grand Alliance
207(4)
Conclusion
211(2)
Recommended reading
213(3)
The `First' Cold War In Europe, 1945-61
216(31)
Introduction
216(2)
The German question
218(2)
From take-overs to conformity: the USSR and Eastern Europe
220(4)
The United States, containment and Western Europe
224(6)
On every front
230(2)
Stability and revolts
232(4)
A wasting asset? Nuclear weapons
236(2)
Culture and propagnda
238(2)
The Berlin Wall
240(2)
Conclusion
242(1)
Recommended reading
243(4)
Asia in Turmoil: Nationalism, Revolution and the Rise of the Cold War, 1945-53
247(24)
Introduction
247(1)
The end of the Raj
248(2)
Nationalism and independence in South-East Asia
250(3)
The Chinese Civil War
253(5)
China, Japan and the Cold War in Asia
258(3)
The Korean War
261(4)
Asia and the consequences of the Korean War
265(2)
Conclusion
267(1)
Recommended reading
268(3)
From Cold War To Detente, 1962-79
271(24)
Introduction
271(2)
The Cuban Missile Crisis
273(2)
Towards the world of MAD
275(2)
France, Germany and the origins of European detente
277(2)
Trouble in the Soviet bloc
279(2)
Triangular diplomacy and the `two detentes'
281(2)
Detente in trouble: Watergate, Angola and the Horn of Africa
283(4)
The death of detente: SALT II and Afghanistan
287(3)
Conclusion
290(2)
Recommended reading
292(3)
The Vietnam Wars, 1945-79
295(20)
Introduction
295(1)
The origins of the conflict and the first Indochina War
296(2)
Divided Vietnam and American nation-building
298(3)
The Americanization of the Vietnam War
301(5)
`Peace' and unification
306(3)
Indochina in turmoil after 1975
309(2)
Conclusion
311(1)
Recommended reading
312(3)
Neutralism, Development and the Rise of the Third World, 1945-2007
315(20)
Introduction
315(1)
Neutrality in Cold War Europe
316(2)
India and the path to Bandung
318(4)
The birth of the Non-Aligned Movement
322(3)
Development and the Group of 77
325(3)
The fragmentation of the Third World
328(4)
Conclusion
332(1)
Recommended reading
333(2)
The `Developmental States': Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, 1945-2007
335(22)
Introduction
335(1)
The American occupation of Japan
336(2)
The `1955 system' and the revision of the Security Treaty
338(4)
High-speed growth and its discontents
342(4)
Japan as an economic superpower
346(3)
The troubled nineties
349(1)
Japan's neighbours: South Korea and Taiwan
350(3)
Conclusion
353(1)
Recommended reading
354(3)
The People's Republic of China and North Korea: Ideology and Nationalism, 1949-2007
357(22)
Introduction
357(1)
The rise and decline of the Sino-Soviet alliance
358(5)
Revolutionary China and the Third World
363(3)
The opening to America and the death of Mao
366(2)
Deng and the `Four Modernizations'
368(2)
Tiananmen and after: causes and consequences
370(2)
North Korea: the last Stalinist state
372(3)
Conclusion
375(1)
Recommended reading
376(3)
The United States and Latin America, 1945-2007
379(25)
Introduction
379(1)
Hemispheric unity, internal dislocation
380(3)
Guatemala
383(2)
The Cuban Revolution
385(2)
The Alliance for Progress
387(4)
Revolutionaries and reformers from Chile to Nicaragua
391(5)
Into the new millennium: an age of uncertainty
396(4)
Conclusion
400(1)
Recommended reading
401(3)
Africa: Decolonization and Independence, 1945-2007
404(25)
Introduction
404(1)
The end of empire
405(4)
The rise and fall of pan-Africanism
409(2)
Imperialism and `white rule' in southern Africa
411(2)
The Cold War in Africa
413(3)
The end of apartheid in South Africa
416(2)
The African state and the legacy of empire
418(5)
Poverty, resources and the troubled road to democracy
423(3)
Conclusion
426(1)
Recommended reading
427(2)
The Arab---Israeli Conflict, 1949-2007
429(27)
Introduction
429(1)
The 1956 Suez-Sinai campaign
430(3)
The 1967 June War
433(1)
The 1973 October War
434(4)
The 1982 Lebanon War
438(2)
The Palestinian armed struggle from the 1948 naqba to the 1987 intifada
440(2)
The peace process, its collapse and attempts to revive it
442(6)
The 2006 Lebanon War
448(4)
Conclusion
452(1)
Recommended reading
453(3)
The Rise of Political Islam, 1928-2000
456(24)
Introduction
456(1)
The rise of political Islam
457(2)
Islamist movements: aims, strategies and political philosophies
459(4)
The 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran
463(3)
Fundamentalist Islam: Afghanistan and the Taliban
466(2)
Islamic resistance: Hizb'allah, Hamas and Laskar Jihad
468(4)
Transnational Islamism, international jihadism, global Islamism and the al-Qaeda phenomenon
472(3)
Conclusion
475(1)
Recommended reading
476(4)
The End Of The Cold War and The `New World Order', 1980-2000
480(21)
Introduction
480(1)
The superpowers and the Third World
481(2)
The disintegration of the Soviet bloc
483(6)
The First Gulf War
489(2)
The unipolar moment: American at the apex
491(3)
The `new world order' and ethnic conflict
494(4)
Conclusion
498(1)
Recommended reading
499(2)
The Rise of a New Europe: The History of European Integration, 1945-2007
501(21)
Introduction
501(1)
The idea of Europe
502(1)
From the Second World War to the Treaty of Rome
503(2)
Widening and deepening in the shadow of the Cold War
505(3)
An ever-wider Europe and the conundrums of success
508(6)
The EEC/EU as inspiration: integration in Asia and the Americas
514(4)
Conclusion
518(2)
Recommended reading
520(2)
The War on Terror in a Globalized World
522(20)
Introduction
522(1)
From 9/11 to `Iraqi Freedom'
523(4)
Backfire: Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terror
527(3)
The challenge of nuclear proliferation
530(2)
America's conundrums: hyperpower humbled
532(2)
Al-Qaeda since 9/11
534(1)
The `war on terror' in South-East Asia
535(3)
Conclusion: where to next?
538(2)
Recommended reading
540(2)
Glossary 542(19)
Bibliography 561(40)
Index 601
Antony Best is Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics.





Jussi M. Hanhimäki is Professor of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.



Joseph A. Maiolo is Senior Lecturer in International History in the Department of War Studies, Kings College London.



Kirsten E. Schulze is Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics.