The shock of the global : the 1970s in perspective / edited by Niall Ferguson ... [et al.].

Contributor Ferguson, Niall.

Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.

Descriptionxii, 434 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction: Crisis? What crisis? : the 1970s and the shock of the global / Niall Ferguson -- pt. 1. Into an emerging order -- " Malaise" : anticipating the crisis of capitalist democracies in the seventies / 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 East Bloc goes borrowing / Stephen Kotkin -- pt. 2. 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 in the 1970s / Vernie Oliveiro -- pt. 3. 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 U.S. and the developing world in the 1970s / Mark Atwood Lawrence -- pt. 4. 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 in the 1970s / Erez Manela -- The environment, environmentalism, and international society in the long 1970s / J.R. McNeill -- pt. 5. 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.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-410) and index.

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