Cover Image

The shock of the global : the 1970s in perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ferguson, Niall
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
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.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Crisis, what crisis? The 1970s and the shock of the global / Niall Ferguson
  • pt. I. Into an emerging order. "Malaise" : the crisis of capitalism in the 1970s / Charles S. Maier
  • The United States and globalization in the 1970s / Daniel J. Sargent
  • The great transformation : China in the long 1970s / Odd Arne Westad
  • The kiss of debt : the East Bloc goes borrowing / Stephen Kotkin
  • pt. II. Stagflation and the economic origins of globalization. The global 1970s and the echo of the Great Depression / Alan M. Taylor
  • International finance and political legitimacy : a Latin American view of the global shock / Jeremy Adelman
  • American debt, global capital : the policy origins of securitization / Louis Hyman
  • The United States, multinational enterprises, and the politics of globalization / Vernie Oliveiro
  • pt. III. International relations in an age of upheaval. The Vietnam decade : the global shock of the war / Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
  • Henry Kissinger and the geopolitics of globalization / Jeremi Suri
  • Wrestling with parity : the nuclear revolution revisited / Francis J. Gavin
  • Containing globalism : the United States and the developing world in the 1970s / Mark Atwood Lawrence
  • pt. IV. Global challenges and international society. The transformation of international institutions : global shock as cultural shock / Glenda Sluga
  • The seventies and the rebirth of human rights / Michael Cotey Morgan
  • Smallpox eradication and the rise of global governance / Erez Manela
  • The environment, environmentalism, and international society in the long 1970s / J.R. McNeill
  • pt. V. Ideological, religious, and intellectual upheaval. Globalizing sisterhood : International Women's Year and the politics of representation / Jocelyn Olcott
  • Liberation and redemption in 1970s rock music / Rebecca J. Sheehan
  • Universal nationalism : Christian America's response to the years of upheaval / Andrew Preston
  • An uncertain trajectory : Islam's contemporary globalization, 1971-1979 / Ayesha Jalal
  • Future shock : the end of the world as they knew it / Matthew Connelly
  • Epilogue: The shock of the global / Thomas Borstelmann.