The World in the Long Twentieth Century: An Interpretive History
- ISBN-10
- 0520285557
- ISBN-13
- 9780520285552
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 392
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-01-12
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Edward Ross Dickinson
Description
The biological transformation of modern times -- The foundations of the modern global economy -- Reorganizing the global economy -- Localization and globalization -- The great explosion -- New world (dis)order -- High modernity -- Revolt and refusal -- Transformative modernity -- Democracy and capitalism triumphant
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