The world transformed : 1945 to the present
The best-selling anthology The World Transformed, 1945 to the Present: A Documentary Reader, Second Edition, serves as an ideal companion volume to The World Transformed: 1945 to the Present, Second Edition. Edited by Michael H. Hunt, this thoroughly updated collection invites students to interpret and evaluate 180 documents organized into 40 topical sections ranging over the last seven decades and virtually the entire globe
Print Book, English, 2016
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Oxford University Press, New York, 2016
xxii, 601 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780199371020, 0199371024
907585907
Introduction: the post-1945 watershed
Part I. Hopes and fears contend, 1945-1953
The Cold War: toward Soviet-American confrontation
The international economy: out of the ruins
The third world: first tremors in Asia
Part II. The Cold War system under stress, 1953-1968
The Cold War: a tenuous accommodation
Abundance and discontent in the developed world
Third-world hopes at high tide
Part III. From Cold War to globalization, 1968-1991
The Cold War comes to a close
Global markets: one system, three centers
Divergent paths in the third world
Part IV. Integration and fragmentation: the 1990s and beyond
The power and perils of globalization
A regionally configured world
Final reflections on the post-1945 world: the limits and uses of history
Original edition published in 2004