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Beschreibung

From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic stagflation, political scandal, and global turmoil. Yet from an international perspective it was a seminal decade, one that brought the reintegration of the world after the great divisions of the mid-twentieth century. It was the 1970s that introduced the world to the phenomenon of globalization, as networks of interdependence bound peoples and societies in new and original ways.

The 1970s saw the breakdown of the postwar economic order and the advent of floating currencies and free capital movements. Non-state actors rose to prominence while the authority of the superpowers diminished. Transnational issues such as environmental protection, population control, and human rights attracted unprecedented attention. The decade transformed international politics, ending the era of bipolarity and launching two great revolutions that would have repercussions in the twenty-first century: the Iranian theocratic revolution and the Chinese market revolution.

The Shock of the Global examines the large-scale structural upheaval of the 1970s by transcending the standard frameworks of national borders and superpower relations. It reveals for the first time an international system in the throes of enduring transformations.

From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic stagflation, political scandal, and global turmoil. Yet from an international perspective it was a seminal decade, one that brought the reintegration of the world after the great divisions of the mid-twentieth century. It was the 1970s that introduced the world to the phenomenon of globalization, as networks of interdependence bound peoples and societies in new and original ways.

The 1970s saw the breakdown of the postwar economic order and the advent of floating currencies and free capital movements. Non-state actors rose to prominence while the authority of the superpowers diminished. Transnational issues such as environmental protection, population control, and human rights attracted unprecedented attention. The decade transformed international politics, ending the era of bipolarity and launching two great revolutions that would have repercussions in the twenty-first century: the Iranian theocratic revolution and the Chinese market revolution.

The Shock of the Global examines the large-scale structural upheaval of the 1970s by transcending the standard frameworks of national borders and superpower relations. It reveals for the first time an international system in the throes of enduring transformations.

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Edited by Niall Ferguson, Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel Sargent
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780674061866
ISBN-10: 0674061861
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Niall Ferguson
Ayesha Jalal
Stephen Kotkin
Mark Atwood Lawrence
Mark Atwood Mcneill
Redaktion: Maier, Charles S.
Sargent, Daniel J.
Manela, Erez
Ferguson, Niall
Hersteller: Harvard University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 232 x 146 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Charles S. Maier (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.11.2011
Gewicht: 0,584 kg
Artikel-ID: 122020750