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Transforming the World Keith Robbins

Transforming the World By Keith Robbins

Transforming the World by Keith Robbins

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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.

Transforming the World Summary

Transforming the World: Global Political History since World War II by Keith Robbins

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.

About Keith Robbins

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.

Table of Contents

Chronology Maps Introduction: Grasping Global History PART I: ENDING WAR, BUILDING PEACE Struggles for Mastery Policemen Meeting Outcomes and Anticipations PART II 1945-1955: MAKING A COLD PEACE European Alternatives The United Nations and the United States The Middle East South Asia East Asia PART III: 1955-1965: TO THE BRINK AND BACK Superpowers and Subordinates: The Middle East and Europe Continental Confrontations: Castro, Kennedy, Khruschev Africa: Emergences and Emergencies Algeria: Found and Lost Asian Accommodations PART IV: 1965-1975: OLD PATTERNS AND NEW PERMUTATIONS Asian Variations Superpowers Challenged Security and Cooperation in Europe Overlapping Linkages: A Mediterranean World Africa's Worlds PART V: COMING TO CONCLUSIONS 1975-1989 Europeans: Identifying a Common Home? The Middle East: Putting its World to Rights? A Question of Latitude: 'North' and 'South' Afghanistan to Sri Lanka: South Asia? East Asia/Pacific: Flexing Muscles? Gorbachev and Reagan: Turning Point 1985-89 PART VI: 1991-2011: NEW WORLD ORDERS? Superpowers: Rethinking Required The Middle East: Still at the Centre Identifying Multipolar Complexity.

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NLS9780333772003
9780333772003
0333772008
Transforming the World: Global Political History since World War II by Keith Robbins
Keith Robbins
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2012-12-11
392
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