Title: Understanding Globalization
First published: 1997
Description: Contents: 

Change and the modern world --
The world after World War II --
Dollar devaluations --
Fighting inflation --
Debt and taxes in the Third World --
Debt and taxes in the United States --
Stock market and job loss --
Technology, food, and hunger --
Free trade agreements --
Population growth --
Global climate change --
Dictatorship and democracy --
The spread of separatism --
Mafias and the global drug trade.
Subjects: World politics, Social history, Economic history, Globalization, Global environmental change, Environmental indicators, Social change, Histoire sociale, Changement économique, 1950-1999, Wirtschaft, Economische verandering, Politique mondiale, Xã hội học, Politieke verandering, Politik, Mondialisation, Impact social, Umwelt, Globalisierung, Milieuverandering, Changement global (Environnement), Internationalisatie, Umweltveranderung, Sozialstruktur, Sozialpolitik, Economic history, 1945-, World politics, 1945-, United states, foreign relations
Time periods: 1945-, 1945-1989