World Since 1945 A Brief History

Name: World Since 1945 A Brief History
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ISBN: 9780131897052

ISBN-10: 0131897055

ISBN-13: 9780131897052

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Daniel R. Brower

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Tracing global events from the last years of the Second World War until the Iraq war of 2003, this brief but comprehensive volume on contemporary world history argues that the most profound transformation of global relations in this period has been the fall of the last colonial empires and the triumph of nation-states. The World Since 1945 offers its readers a basic chronology of the major events that have marked the history of the last half-century. AUTHOR Daniel Brower begins with a succinct discussion of the Second World War's revolutionary impact on the course of global affairs, emphasizing the disappearance of Western colonial empires and the beginning of the Cold War conflict between…

Book details

List price: $113.32
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 4/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880



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Preface



The Second Twentieth Century and the Second World War



The Beginning of the Cold War, 19451953



The Resurgence of East Asia



New Nations in South Asia



Africa and Latin America in the Third World



Nationalism and War in the Middle East



The West and the Soviet Union in the Cold War, 19531991



Local Wars, Global Economy: The World in the Late Twentieth Century


Index


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