Aftermath : the makers of the postwar world / Richard Crowder

Author: Crowder, Richard (Historian)
Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
Copyright Date: ©2015
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

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Contents

Not in enmity -- Getting started -- Doing the job -- Leaving the shadows -- Drawing up account -- Furling the flags -- A sentimental journey -- Force to break -- The half-open door -- Slackening sail -- Early stirrings -- Something brewing -- Across the harbour bar -- Impatient dawn -- The giant's strength -- The swaying flag -- Facing the fight -- The grain of salt.

Summary

"In a decade, between 1940 and 1950, the old world order collapsed, and a new one was created. Old European empires - France, Germany and the United Kingdom - receded, replaced by two new superpowers - the Soviet Union and the United States. Beyond Europe, a swath of new countries was created: India, Communist China, Israel and the modern Arab states, Indonesia, the Koreas. But there were darker shadows too, cast by the onset of the Cold War: the failure to establish international controls on atomic energy, or the growth of the national security state and modern intelligence apparatus. This era also produced some of the most remarkable statesmen of modern times, including leaders such as Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Truman, de Gaulle, Nehru and Mao Tsetung; diplomats like George Marshall, Dean Acheson, Anthony Eden, Ernest Bevin and Robert Schuman; and international fixers, such as Averell Harriman, John Maynard Keynes, or Jean Monnet. Their stories form the core fabric of this book. Richard Crowder examines their shared ambition to rebuild the world, and launch a second age of globalization."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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ISBN

9780857738431 (electronic bk.)
0857738437 (electronic bk.)
9780857727640 (e-book)
0857727648
9780755621651 (online)
0755621654
9781784531027
1784531022

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-302) and index.

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