Ebbing of European Ascendancy An International History of the World 1914-1945

Name: Ebbing of European Ascendancy An International History of the World 1914-1945
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ISBN: 9780340555668

ISBN-10: 0340555661

ISBN-13: 9780340555668

Edition: 2002

Authors: Sally Marks

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In a space of little over 30 years, the world was transformed. The European great powers were no longer ascendant, even if that was not yet fully revealed to them, and the US, a regional power as of 1914, now belonged to the wholly new category of "superpower." What happened in this short period to work such a dramatic change? The answer lies neither in Europe alone norin the West more broadly, and one of the virtues of this bold new international history of the period that Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America are allowed to play their parts. It treats the Asian and European crises and wars of 1931-45, for example, as a single interlocking whole, as world leaders at the time…

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List price: $120.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 2/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Preface


Prologue: Europe's World



Diplomacy and the State System to 1900



Europe's War



The Coming of the First World War



The First World War



The Russian Revolution



The West's Peace



The Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty



The Eastern Treaties, 1919-1923



The West's World



The Imperial Factor



Sub-Saharan Africa



The Middle East



East Asia



Latin America



The United States



Europe in the 1920s



The World's Crises



The Great Depression



Challenges of the Dissatisfied, 1931-1937



The World's War



War East and West, 1937-1941



World War II, 1942-1945


Epilogue: A Different World



The Aftermath


Further Reading


Index