The shock of the global : the 1970s in perspective / edited by Niall Ferguson ... [et al.].
Ferguson, Niall.
2010
D848 .S53 2010 (Mapit)
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The shock of the global : the 1970s in perspective / edited by Niall Ferguson ... [et al.].
ISBN
9780674049048 (alk. paper)
0674049047 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
xii, 434 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
D848 .S53 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
909.82/7
Summary
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Ferguson, Niall.
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Introduction: Crisis? What crisis? : the 1970s and the shock of the global / Niall Ferguson
pt. 1. Into an emerging order
"Malaise" : The crisis of capitalism in the 1970's / Charles S. Maier
The United States and "globalization" in the 1970s / Daniel J. Sargent
The great transformation : China in the long 1970s / Odd Arne Westad
The kiss of debt : the East Bloc goes borrowing / Stephen Kotkin
pt. 2. Stagflation and the economic origins of globalization
The global 1970s and the echo of the Great Depression / Alan M. Taylor
International finance and political legitimacy : a Latin American view of the global shock / Jeremy Adelman
American debt, global capital : the policy origins of securitization / Louis Hyman
The United States, multinational enterprises, and the politics of globalization / Vernie Oliveiro
pt. 3. International relations in an age of upheaval
The Vietnam decade : the global shock of the war / Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
Henry Kissinger and the geopolitics of globalization / Jeremi Suri
Wrestling with parity : the nuclear revolution revisited / Francis J. Gavin
Containing globalism : the United States and the developing world in the 1970s / Mark Atwood Lawrence
pt. 4. Global challenges and international society
The transformation of international institutions : global shock as cultural shock / Glenda Sluga
The seventies and the rebirth of human rights / Michael Cotey Morgan
Smallpox eradication and the rise of global governance / Erez Manela
The environment, environmentalism, and international society in the long 1970s / J.R. McNeill
pt. 5. Ideological, religious, and intellectual upheaval
Globalizing sisterhood : International Women's Year and the politics of representation / Jocelyn Olcott
Liberation and redemption in 1970s rock music / Rebecca J. Sheehan
Universal nationalism : Christian America's response to the years of upheaval / Andrew Preston
An uncertain trajectory : Islam's contemporary globalization, 1971-1979 / Ayesha Jalal
Future shock : the end of the world as they knew it / Matthew Connelly
Epilogue: The shock of the global / Thomas Borstelmann.

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