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E-grāmata: Transforming the World: Global Political History since World War II

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  • Izdošanas datums: 11-Dec-2012
  • Izdevniecība: Red Globe Press
  • Valoda: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781137295620
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An ambitious and engaging narrative survey that charts the history of the world from a political perspective, from 1937 to the post-9/11 era. Providing a wide-ranging assessment of global interactions in peace and war since World War II, Robbins connects the crises, conflicts and accommodations that have brought us to the still-troubled present.

Acknowledgements xiv
List of Maps
xv
Select Chronology xvi
Preface: Grasping Global History xxv
PART 1 TOWARDS 1945: ENDING WORLD WAR, BUILDING PEACE
1(38)
1 Struggles for Mastery
3(9)
2 Policemen Meeting
12(14)
3 Outcomes and Anticipations
26(13)
PART 2 1945-1955: MAKING A COLD PEACE
39(52)
4 European Alternatives
42(12)
5 The United Nations and the United States
54(12)
6 The Middle East
66(6)
7 South Asia
72(7)
8 East Asia
79(12)
PART 3 1955-1965: TO THE BRINK AND BACK
91(60)
9 Superpowers and Subordinates: The Middle East and Europe
96(13)
10 Cross-Continental Confrontations: Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev
109(10)
11 Africa: Emergences and Emergencies
119(17)
12 Asian Accommodations
136(15)
PART 4 1965-1975: OLD PATTERNS AND NEW PERMUTATIONS
151(70)
13 Asian Variations
155(14)
14 Superpowers Challenged
169(15)
15 Security and Co-operation in Europe
184(10)
16 Overlapping Linkages: A Mediterranean World
194(15)
17 Africa's Worlds
209(12)
PART 5 COMING TO CONCLUSIONS: 1975-1989/91
221(74)
18 Europeans: Identifying a Common Home?
224(16)
19 The Middle East: Putting it to Rights?
240(20)
20 A Question of Latitude: `North' and `South'
260(2)
21 Afghanistan to Sri Lanka: `South Asia'?
262(11)
22 East Asia/Pacific: Flexing Muscles?
273(15)
23 Gorbachev and Reagan: Turning Point, 1985-89
288(7)
PART 6 1991-2011: NEW WORLD ORDERS?
295
24 Superpowers: Rethinking Required
299(15)
25 The Middle East: Still at the Centre
314(12)
26 Identifying Multipolar Complexity
326
Index 345
Acknowledgements xiv
List of Maps
xv
Select Chronology xvi
Preface: Grasping Global History xxv
PART 1 Towards 1945: Ending World War, Building Peace
1(38)
1 Struggles for Mastery
3(9)
Mastery in Europe
5(2)
Mastery in East Asia
7(1)
Mastery in the Middle East
8(4)
2 Policemen Meeting
12(14)
Egypt and its visitors: November 1943
12(1)
Chinese debut: Chiang Kai-shek
13(2)
Imperial emissary? Churchill
15(4)
Going global: Roosevelt
19(4)
Tehran, November-December 1943: Stalin's stake
23(3)
3 Outcomes and Anticipations
26(13)
Europe: beyond recovery?
26(2)
The Soviet Union: turning the world around?
28(1)
East Asia: resuming the old order?
29(4)
The USA: making `one world'?
33(5)
Further reading
38(1)
PART 2 1945-1955: Making A Cold Peace
39(52)
4 European Alternatives
42(12)
A burnt-out case?
42(2)
`Germany', Britain and France: creating (Western) European unity
44(3)
The Soviet Union: creating a people's Europe?
47(3)
Stalin: still policing?
50(1)
Alternative conclusions
51(3)
5 The United Nations and the United States
54(12)
The UN: organizing
54(1)
Reconstructing and developing
55(1)
Declaring human rights
56(2)
Creating security
58(1)
The USA: assuming global responsibility
58(2)
Showing exceptional leadership
60(1)
Projecting hope, feeling fear
61(1)
Truman's Doctrine: guarantees without limit?
62(4)
6 The Middle East
66(6)
Egypt, Syria and Iraq: Nasser stirring
66(1)
Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Algeria: standing up
67(2)
Palestine and Israel: not giving ground
69(1)
Iran: Mossadegh muzzled
70(2)
7 South Asia
72(7)
Dismantling the British Raj
72(1)
India and Pakistan: making and unmaking
73(3)
Nehru's World: between Cambridge and Delhi
76(3)
8 East Asia
79(12)
China: standing up
79(1)
Korea: peninsular problem - global test-case?
80(2)
South-East Asia: departures, divisions and outside `solutions'
82(2)
Japan: hors de combat
84(2)
Third worlds and other worlds: bonding in Bandung
86(3)
Further reading
89(2)
PART 3 1955-1965: To The Brink And Back
91(60)
9 Superpowers and Subordinates: The Middle East and Europe
96(13)
Suez, 1956: whose canal?
96(1)
Suez: disarray of the West
97(2)
Suez: conclusions and implications
99(4)
`This is Hungary calling'
103(2)
Rome: European Community matters
105(1)
Moscow: dropping Stalinism, preserving the Soviet bloc?
106(3)
10 Cross-Continental Confrontations: Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev
109(10)
Cuban collisions: Castro and Kennedy
109(2)
Berlin walled in: Khrushchev and Kennedy
111(2)
Cuba: blinking at the brink
113(1)
Onlookers: holding breath and brooding
114(5)
11 Africa: Emergences and Emergencies
119(17)
Algeria: found and lost
119(1)
Ghana and Nigeria: African pilots?
120(4)
Senegal, Ivory Coast and Guinea: implementing negritude
124(2)
Congo: brewing disaster
126(1)
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Kenya: dilemmas on the Horn
127(2)
Central Africa: breaking up
129(1)
South Africa: resisting the wind
130(2)
Cuba and Portuguese Africa: return of the native?
132(1)
African unity: one voice, but many tongues
133(3)
12 Asian Accommodations
136(15)
China: still at the margins?
136(2)
China and India: Himalayan rumblings?
138(1)
China: east wind blowing?
139(1)
India: new principles, new principals?
140(1)
Pakistan: military direction
141(1)
Japan: returning to `normal'
142(2)
Searching for `South-East Asia'
144(6)
Further reading
150(1)
PART 4 1965-1975: Old Patterns And New Permutations
151(70)
13 Asian Variations
155(14)
Indian democracy: a state of emergency?
155(2)
Pakistan/Bangladesh: dissolving union
157(2)
China: cultural alienation, diplomatic accommodation?
159(5)
Japan: re-engaging and remodelling?
164(1)
South-East Asia: associated - up to a point
165(1)
Everywhere out of place?
166(3)
14 Superpowers Challenged
169(15)
The world from the White House: the US mission
169(2)
The USA and `Indo-China': entanglement and endgame
171(4)
The world from the Kremlin: the Soviet mission
175(2)
The Soviet Union and socialist countries: solidarity without sovereignty?
177(7)
15 Security and Co-operation in Europe
184(10)
France: upheaval and order
185(2)
`Germany': neighbourly relations?
187(3)
Britain: coming home to roost?
190(2)
Helsinki `Final Act', 1975
192(2)
16 Overlapping Linkages: A Mediterranean World
194(15)
Arab worlds
195(1)
`Palestine': war and its aftermath, 1967
196(4)
`Palestine': war and its aftermath, 1973
200(1)
Greece, Turkey, Libya and Algeria: military orders
201(4)
Oil's message: Algiers, 1973
205(2)
The Shah's Iran: crowning achievement?
207(2)
17 Africa's Worlds
209(12)
Claiming identity: francophone authenticite
209(2)
Claiming identity: anglophone authenticity
211(2)
Rhodesia: unilateral pilot
213(1)
Portugal in Africa: first in, last out
214(2)
South Africa: disturbing the peace
216(1)
Central/East/North-East Africa: disputing neighbourhoods
217(2)
African Unity: aspiration and reality
219(1)
Further reading
220(1)
PART 5 1975-1989/91: Coming To Conclusions
221(74)
18 Europeans: Identifying a Common Home?
224(16)
Gorbachev: peripheral figure to core player
224(3)
European crossroads: Poland and a Pope in Rome
227(2)
A funeral in Rome: Communism and Catholicism
229(2)
Britain and the Soviet Union: business opportunities?
231(1)
Northern entrants: Britain, Denmark and Ireland `join Europe'
231(2)
Southern entrants: Greece, Portugal and Spain `join Europe'
233(2)
Integrating and devolving? States, nations and regions
235(1)
France, Britain and Federal Germany: big players
236(4)
19 The Middle East: Putting it to Rights?
240(10)
Plains speaking
240(1)
Iran: rights and revolutions
241(3)
Palestine: promising land?
244(1)
Egypt: Sadat going solo
245(5)
20 A Question of Latitude: `North' and `South'
250(12)
The Brandt Commission
250(2)
South America: shifting positions
252(3)
Cuba in Africa: North/South meets East/West
255(1)
African kaleidoscope: no centre of gravity?
256(6)
21 Afghanistan to Sri Lanka: `South Asia'?
262(11)
Kabul's cabals
262(2)
India: Indira's red carpet
264(2)
Pakistan: different directors, different directions
266(3)
India: mother to son
269(4)
22 East Asia/Pacific: Flexing Muscles?
273(15)
China's `new era'?
273(4)
China: consolidating our common home
277(2)
Japan: the constraints of success
279(2)
Other `East Asias': making their own mark
281(7)
23 Gorbachev and Reagan: Turning Point, 1985-89
288(7)
Further reading
293(2)
PART 6 1991-2011: New World Orders?
295
24 Superpowers: Rethinking Required
299(15)
New epoch? Bush and Gorbachev in Malta
299(1)
The UN: fit for purpose?
300(1)
Civilizations: clashing?
301(1)
Baltic trigger
302(1)
Remaking Russia
303(2)
`The former Soviet Union': restructuring
305(4)
The USA: lonely eminence?
309(5)
25 The Middle East: Still at the Centre
314(12)
Kuwait: a test case
314(1)
Iraq: what mission accomplished?
315(2)
Egypt and Syria: awaiting freedom?
317(1)
Israel/Palestine: no lasting accords
318(2)
A world utterly changed? 9/11/2001
320(1)
Enduring freedom's ambiguities: Kabul to Cairo, Tripoli to Damascus, Algiers to Tehran
321(5)
26 Identifying Multipolar Complexity
326
World in one: Barack Obama
326(1)
Africa: seeing hope, experiencing tragedy
327(4)
Europe: only so far and no further?
331(3)
India: now punching its weight?
334(3)
Brazil: breaking out?
337(2)
China: east wind blowing a gale
339(3)
Japan: buffeted and bewildered?
342(2)
Coda
344(1)
Further reading
344(1)
Index
345
KEITH ROBBINS was formerly Professor of History at Bangor and Glasgow universities in the UK, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales. He has held the posts of President of the Historical Association, and Editor of History. He is the author of over 20 books, 8 edited books, and 120 scholarly articles on political, military, religious and international history, and is the general editor of six major historical series.