Jonathan Sperber guides readers through six decades of global history, from the end of World War Two to the onset of the new millenium. As Sperber's immersive and propulsive book reveals, the defining quality of these decades involved the rising and unstoppable flow of people, goods, capital, a...

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1. Verfasser:	Sperber, Jonathan 1952- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch Karte
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford Oxford University Press [2023]
Schlagworte:	Weltgeschichte 1945-2000 History, Modern / 20th century
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 DE-473 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	Jonathan Sperber guides readers through six decades of global history, from the end of World War Two to the onset of the new millenium. As Sperber's immersive and propulsive book reveals, the defining quality of these decades involved the rising and unstoppable flow of people, goods, capital, and ideas across boundaries, continents and oceans, creating prosperity in some parts of the world, destitution in others, increasing a sense of collective responsibility while also reinforcing nationalism and xenophobia. It was an age of transformation in every realm of human existence: from relations with nature to relations between nations, superpowers to emerging states; from the forms of production to the foundations of religious faith. These changes took on an unprecedentedly global scale. The world both developed and contracted. Most of all, it became interconnected
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (viii, 793 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:	9780197663028
DOI:	10.1093/oso/9780190918958.001.0001