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
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
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
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.