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The Global 1980s - People, Power and Profit (Paperback)
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The Global 1980s - People, Power and Profit (Paperback)
Series: Decades in Global History
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The Global 1980s takes an international perspective on the upheaval
across the world during the long 1980s (1979-1991) with the end of
the Cold War, a move towards a free-market economic system, and the
increasing connectedness of the world. The 1980s was a decade of
unimaginable change. At its start, dictatorships across the world
appeared stable, the state was still seen as having a role to play
in ensuring people's well-being, and the Cold War seemed set to
continue long into the future. By the end of the decade,
dictatorships had fallen, globalisation was on the march and the
opening of the Berlin Wall paved the way for the end of the Cold
War. Divided into four chronological parts, sixteen chapters on
themes including domestic politics, the global spread of democracy,
international relations and global concerns including AIDS, acid
rain and nuclear war, explore how world-wide change was initiated
both from above and below. The book covers such topics as
ideological changes in the liberal democratic west and socialist
east, protests against nuclear weapons and for democratic
governance, global environmental worries, and the end of apartheid
in South Africa. Offering an overview of a decade in transition, as
the global order established after 1945 broke down and a new,
globalised world order emerged, and supported by case studies from
across the world, this truly global book is an essential resource
for students and scholars of the long 1980s and the twentieth
century more generally.
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