The shock of the global
Subtitle: the 1970s in perspective
By: edited by Niall Ferguson ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ferguson, Niall.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Brand: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780674049048
Subjects: Nineteen seventies; History, Modern -- 1945-1989; Globalization -- History -- 20th century; Globalization -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century; Globalization -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century; Social change -- History -- 20th century; Culture shock -- History -- 20th century; Economic history -- 1971-1990; Social history -- 1970-; World politics -- 1945-1989
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Crisis? What crisis? : the 1970s and the shock of the global / Niall Ferguson; title: pt. 1. Into an emerging order; title: "Malaise" : anticipating the crisis of capitalist democracies in the seventies / Charles S. Maier; title: The United States and "globalization" in the 1970s / Daniel J. Sargent; title: The great transformation : China in the long 1970s / Odd Arne Westad; title: The East Bloc goes borrowing / Stephen Kotkin; title: pt. 2. Stagflation and the economic origins of globalization; title: The global 1970s and the echo of the Great Depression / Alan M. Taylor; title: International finance and political legitimacy : a Latin American view of the global shock / Jeremy Adelman; title: American debt, global capital : the policy origins of securitization / Louis Hyman; title: The United States, multinational enterprises, and the politics of globalization in the 1970s / Vernie Oliveiro; title: pt. 3. International relations in an age of upheaval; title: The Vietnam decade : the global shock of the war / Lien-Hang T. Nguyen; title: Henry Kissinger and the geopolitics of globalization / Jeremi Suri; title: Wrestling with parity : the nuclear revolution revisited / Francis J. Gavin; title: Containing globalism : the U.S. and the developing world in the 1970s / Mark Atwood Lawrence; title: pt. 4. Global challenges and international society; title: The transformation of international institutions : global shock as cultural shock / Glenda Sluga; title: The seventies and the rebirth of human rights / Michael Cotey Morgan; title: Smallpox eradication and the rise of global governance in the 1970s / Erez Manela; title: The environment, environmentalism, and international society in the long 1970s / J.R. McNeill; title: pt. 5. Ideological, religious, and intellectual upheaval; title: Globalizing sisterhood : International Women's Year and the politics of representation / Jocelyn Olcott; title: Liberation and redemption in 1970s rock music / Rebecca J. Sheehan; title: Universal nationalism : Christian America's response to the years of upheaval / Andrew Preston; title: An uncertain trajectory : Islam's contemporary globalization, 1971-1979 / Ayesha Jalal; title: Future shock : the end of the world as they knew it / Matthew Connelly; title: Epilogue: The shock of the global / Thomas Borstelmann.