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Rebuilding Europe
Western Europe, America and Postwar Reconstruction
Häftad, 1992
1218 kr
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With the end of the Cold War and the prospect of a federal Europe ever closer, this book is a timely reassessment of the processes by which western Europe was reborn out of the devastation and despair of 1945. Concentrating on the first postwar decade and making rich use of the latest research …
Peace Movements: International Protest and World Politics Since 1945
Av April Carter
Häftad, 1992
1278 kr
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There is a long tradition of opposition to war and organized peace campaigns date from 1815. Since 1945, however, modern weapons technology has threatened world wide destruction and has stimulated widespread protests. This book sketches in the background of thinking about peace and resistance to …
Central Europe Since 1945
Häftad, 1994
889 kr
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Central Europe - here, Poland, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and Hungary - is at the centre of international attention since the Soviet collapse. An understanding of its postwar history is critical to an appreciation of the challenges facing its present rulers. This is an …
Post-Imperial Age: The Great Powers and the Wider World
International Relations Since 1945: a history in two volumes
Häftad, 1994
964 kr
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This volume looks at the impact on the wider world of the end of the European empires and their replacement by a new international order dominated by East-West rivalries. After surveying the decolonization process, the book looks successively at the different patterns of experience in Southern …
Community of Europe
A History of European Integration Since 1945
Häftad, 1994
844 kr
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This hugely successful history of political and economic integration in Western Europe since the Second World War -- and especially, but by no means exclusively, the European Community itself -- was first published in 1991, to general acclaim. Since then much turbulent water has flowed under the …
Balkans Since the Second World War
Häftad, 2002
844 kr
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Since the collapse of Eastern European communism, the Balkans have been more prominent in world affairs than at any time since before the First World War. Crises in the area have led NATO to fire its first ever shots in anger, whilst international forces have been deployed on a scale and in a …
Decolonization in Africa
Häftad, 1996
1278 kr
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John Hargreaves examines how the British, French, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in tropical Africa became independent in the postwar years, and in doing so transformed the international landscape. African demands for independence and colonial plans for reform - central to the story - are …
Rise and Fall of the The Soviet Economy
An Economic History of the USSR 1945 - 1991
Häftad, 2003
889 kr
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Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the centrally-planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did a potentially viable mechanism come apart in Gorbachev's clumsy hands? Does its failure mean that …
Greece since 1945
Politics, Economy and Society
Häftad, 2002
1098 kr
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The book draws extensively on research on modern Greece in recent decades, and on the many perceptive commentaries on recent events in the Greek press. It adopts both an analytical and chronological approach and shows how Greece has both converged with western Europe and remained distinctively …
United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa Since 1960
Häftad, 2002
949 kr
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United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa provides an exploration of United Nations military intervention in Africa, from its beginnings in the Congo in 1960 to the new operations of the twenty-first century.The scene is set by an examination of the theoretical bases both of United Nations peacekeeping …
Pacific Basin since 1945
An International History
Häftad, 2001
949 kr
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The nations of the Pacific Basin - in East and Southeast Asia, Australasia, the Pacific islands and the Americas - make up the world's largest economic zone, and its most culturally diverse region. In recent years its Asian 'Tiger Economies' have suffered economic collapse and unfinished business …
Cold War
The Great Powers and their Allies
Häftad, 2007
829 kr
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The Cold War offers a brief but detailed treatment of one of the most complex eras of the 20th Century. In this fully revised second edition, J.P.D. Dunbabin, drawing on international scholarship and using much new material from communist sources, describes a world in which covert operations could …
Cold War
The Great Powers and their Allies
Inbunden, 2015
2578 kr
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The Cold War offers a brief but detailed treatment of one of the most complex eras of the 20th Century. In this fully revised second edition, J.P.D. Dunbabin, drawing on international scholarship and using much new material from communist sources, describes a world in which covert operations could …
Rise and Fall of the The Soviet Economy
An Economic History of the USSR 1945 - 1991
Inbunden, 2016
2578 kr
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Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the centrally-planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did a potentially viable mechanism come apart in Gorbachev's clumsy hands? Does its failure mean that …
United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa Since 1960
Inbunden, 2016
2578 kr
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United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa provides an exploration of United Nations military intervention in Africa, from its beginnings in the Congo in 1960 to the new operations of the twenty-first century.The scene is set by an examination of the theoretical bases both of United Nations peacekeeping …
Decolonization in Africa
Inbunden, 2016
2578 kr
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John Hargreaves examines how the British, French, Belgian, Spanish and Portuguese colonies in tropical Africa became independent in the postwar years, and in doing so transformed the international landscape. African demands for independence and colonial plans for reform - central to the story - are …
Greece since 1945
Politics, Economy and Society
Inbunden, 2016
2578 kr
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The book draws extensively on research on modern Greece in recent decades, and on the many perceptive commentaries on recent events in the Greek press. It adopts both an analytical and chronological approach and shows how Greece has both converged with western Europe and remained distinctively …
Pacific Basin since 1945
An International History
Inbunden, 2017
2578 kr
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The nations of the Pacific Basin - in East and Southeast Asia, Australasia, the Pacific islands and the Americas - make up the world's largest economic zone, and its most culturally diverse region. In recent years its Asian 'Tiger Economies' have suffered economic collapse and unfinished business …
Balkans Since the Second World War
Inbunden, 2017
2578 kr
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Since the collapse of Eastern European communism, the Balkans have been more prominent in world affairs than at any time since before the First World War. Crises in the area have led NATO to fire its first ever shots in anger, whilst international forces have been deployed on a scale and in a …
Rebuilding Europe
Western Europe, America and Postwar Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2017
2578 kr
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With the end of the Cold War and the prospect of a federal Europe ever closer, this book is a timely reassessment of the processes by which western Europe was reborn out of the devastation and despair of 1945. Concentrating on the first postwar decade and making rich use of the latest research …
Post-Imperial Age: The Great Powers and the Wider World
International Relations Since 1945: a history in two volumes
Inbunden, 2017
2578 kr
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This volume looks at the impact on the wider world of the end of the European empires and their replacement by a new international order dominated by East-West rivalries. After surveying the decolonization process, the book looks successively at the different patterns of experience in Southern …
Peace Movements: International Protest and World Politics Since 1945
Av April Carter
Inbunden, 2017
2578 kr
Lägg i varukorg
There is a long tradition of opposition to war and organized peace campaigns date from 1815. Since 1945, however, modern weapons technology has threatened world wide destruction and has stimulated widespread protests. This book sketches in the background of thinking about peace and resistance to …
Community of Europe
A History of European Integration Since 1945
Inbunden, 2017
2578 kr
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This hugely successful history of political and economic integration in Western Europe since the Second World War -- and especially, but by no means exclusively, the European Community itself -- was first published in 1991, to general acclaim. Since then much turbulent water has flowed under the …
Central Europe Since 1945
Inbunden, 2015
2578 kr
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Central Europe - here, Poland, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and Hungary - is at the centre of international attention since the Soviet collapse. An understanding of its postwar history is critical to an appreciation of the challenges facing its present rulers. This is an …
