(The) World since 1945 : a history of international relations / by Wayne C. McWilliams and Harry Piotrowski
By: McWilliams, Wayne C [Author].
Material type: TextPublisher: New Delhi : Viva Books, 2006.Edition: 6th ed.Description: xiv, 618p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9788130904382; 8130904381.Subject(s): History -- World history -- 1940-1949 | HistoryDDC classification: 909.824Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | HCC Seminar Library General Stacks | 909.824 MCW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 2009 | Available | 3565-7 |
Includes index.
INTRODUCTION -- THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR: The end of World War II and the dawn of the nuclear age -- The Cold War institutionalized -- The Cold War in Asia: a change of venue -- Confrontation and coexistence -- NATIONALISM AND THE END OF COLONIALISM: Decolonization in Asia -- Decolonization in Africa -- The middle-east: the Arab-Israeli conflict -- THE SHIFTING SANDS OF GLOBAL POWER: The communist world after Stalin -- The war in Indochina -- Detente and the end of bipolarity -- THE THIRD WORLD: Problems of economic development in the Third World -- Africa -- Latin America -- The people's republic of China and Taiwan -- The Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia -- TRANSITION TO A NEW ERA: Japan, Korea and East Asian economic development -- The globalization of the economy -- The Soviet Union: from perestroika to retreat from empire -- The nuclear arms race -- Political Islam and the middle east -- September 11 and its consequences -- Epilogue: the end of the Postwar Age
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