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| List of Maps | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Mushroom Cloud and the Iron Curtain | |
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| The Cover Story That Never Was | |
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| The War and the Superpowers | |
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| From Cold Peace to Cold War | |
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| Two Blocs, Two Germanies, Two Bombs | |
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| Communist Revolutions. Asian Style | |
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| Japan Under U.S. Occupation | |
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| China and the Endgame of Civil War | |
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| Korea: The Cold War Turns Hot | |
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| Consolidating Unity and Revolution in China | |
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| Nationalism and Communism in Southeast Asia | |
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| The Limits of "Independence" | |
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| Legacies of Empire | |
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| The Partition of India | |
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| Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples | |
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| The Middle East after Britain and France | |
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| Africa and the Persistence of Imperialism | |
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| The "White Commonwealth" Between Britain and America | |
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| Latin America: "Our" Hemisphere and "Their" Island | |
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| Two Europes, Two Germanies | |
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| The Socialist Transformation of Eastern Europe | |
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| Germany: East and West | |
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| Western Europe: Captealism, Welfare, and Integration | |
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| The Bomb and the Wall | |
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| Cities and Consumers | |
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| Births and Deaths | |
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| Cities and Buildings | |
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| Suburbs and Automobiles | |
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| The Culture of Consumption | |
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| Eyeball to Eyeball, Shoulder to Shoulder | |
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| Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the Space Race | |
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| Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Cuba | |
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| De Gaulle and the Travails of Western Europe | |
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| Dubcek and the Taming of Eastern Europe | |
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| Color, Creed, and Coups | |
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| The Politics of Race in Black and White | |
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| Ethnicity and Conflict in Black Africa | |
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| Development and the Military in Latin America | |
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| Christianity Between Church and State | |
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| Holy War in the Middle East | |
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| Politics, Religion, and Nationalism in South Asia | |
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| East Wind, West Wind | |
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| The Great Leap and the Cultural Revolution | |
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| Southeast Asia and Indonesia's Turning Point | |
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| America's Anguish, Vietnam's Tragedy | |
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| The Vietnam War and America's Allies | |
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| Cultures and Families | |
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| The Consumption of Culture | |
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| Educational Revolutions | |
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| Women on the Move | |
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| Superpower Detente. Communist Confrontation | |
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| A New Strategic Triangle: America, Russia, China | |
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| West Germany Looks East | |
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| Western Europe Looks North and South | |
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| America in Retreat, Detente in Decline | |
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| New Indochina Wars--Communist Against Communist | |
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| Afghanistan, the Olympics, and the Demise of Detente | |
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| Israel, Oil, and Islam | |
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| October 1973: Arab Gamble, Superpower Crisis | |
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| Partial Peace: Israel, Egypt, and the Palestinians | |
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| The Gulf States and the Oil Boom | |
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| The Iranian Revolution and Islamic Resurgence | |
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| Capitalist Revolutions, Asian Style | |
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| The West and Stagflation | |
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| The Japanese "Miracle" | |
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| The Asian Tigers | |
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| The Tiger Cubs | |
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| The Chinese Dragon | |
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| The Indian Elephant | |
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| Challenges for the West | |
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| Thatcherism, Reaganomics, and the Crisis of Capitalism | |
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| Latin America: Debt, Democracy, and Revolution | |
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| Sub-Saharan Africa: The Collapse of the Stave | |
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| The "New Cold War" and Transatlantic Turmoil | |
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| Chips and Genes | |
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| Science, Business, and Government | |
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| Telecommunications and the Satellite Revolution | |
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| Computers and the Electronics Revolution | |
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| The "Information Society" and International Rivalbies | |
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| Molecular Biology and the Revolution in Genetics | |
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| Nuclear Power and the Environmental Counterrevolution | |
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| The Crisis of Communism | |
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| Gorbachev and the "New Thinking" | |
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| The European Revolutions of 1989 | |
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| German Unification and European Union | |
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| Soviet Dis-Union | |
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| The Chinese Exception | |
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| States, Wealth, and Order after the Cold War | |
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| Iraq, Israel, and the Search for Peace in the Middle East | |
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| Poverty and Despotism in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| Latin America: Opening Up Economies, States, and Region | |
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| Postcommunism and the Redefinition of Europe | |
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| The Crisis of "Asian Values"? | |
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| Goods and Values | |
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| Solitary Superpower, Anxious Americans | |
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| "Globalization" and Its Discontents | |
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| Faith and Doubt | |
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| Creating Life? | |
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| Sustaining Life | |
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| Social Life | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Illustration Credits | |
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| Index | |