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Global Interdependence - The World after 1945 (Hardcover)
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Global Interdependence - The World after 1945 (Hardcover)
Series: A History of the World
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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, cultural, and environmental
forces that have shaped the planet in the past sixty years.
Offering fresh insight into international politics since 1945,
Wilfried Loth examines how miscalculations by both the United
States and the Soviet Union brought about a Cold War conflict that
was not necessarily inevitable. Thomas Zeiler explains how American
free-market principles spurred the creation of an entirely new
economic order--a global system in which goods and money flowed
across national borders at an unprecedented rate, fueling growth
for some nations while also creating inequalities in large parts of
the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. From an environmental
viewpoint, J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke contend that humanity
has entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene era, in which massive
industrialization and population growth have become the most
powerful influences upon global ecology. Petra Goedde analyzes how
globalization has impacted indigenous cultures and questions the
extent to which a generic culture has erased distinctiveness and
authenticity. She shows how, paradoxically, the more cultures
blended, the more diversified they became as well. Combining these
different perspectives, volume editor Akira Iriye presents a model
of transnational historiography in which individuals and groups
enter history not primarily as citizens of a country but as
migrants, tourists, artists, and missionaries--actors who create
networks that transcend traditional geopolitical boundaries.
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