Research Catalog

Title

A brief history of now : the past and present of global power / Diego Olstein.

Author

Olstein, Diego Adrián

Publication

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

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Details

Description

xxi, 364 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps; 21 cm

Subjects

• 1800-2099
• Economic history > 21st century
• Economic history > 20th century
• Economic history > 19th century
• World politics > 21st century
• World politics > 20th century
• World politics > 19th century
• History, Modern > 21st century
• History, Modern > 20th century
• History, Modern > 19th century

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Setting the Frame -- Now -- Economic Globalization -- World Hegemony -- Democracy -- Socioeconomic Inequality Within and Between Societies -- Technological Innovations -- Climate Change -- Now and then: Trajectories in Global History -- 2. We Were All Brits (1851 -- 1914) -- Hegemony, What Is It? -- Industrial Revolution -- Which Pyramid? -- The Industrial "Gradualution" -- Democratic Revolution -- The Synergic Revolutions -- Non-Identical Twins -- An Experiment with Synergy -- Another Set of Twins: Free Trade and Comparative Advantage -- Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour: At Home in Western Europe -- Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour: Playing "Catch-22" with Gunpowder Empires -- Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour and the American Divergence -- Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour: The Scramble for Africa -- First Globalization and Britannization -- Spoiling the Hegemonic Party: The Exceptional Outliers -- All Aboard! Welcome to the Global Train -- 3. Until the "Big Brexit" (1914 -- 1945) -- A Globally Convoluted Interplay -- Contested Hegemony, Head-On -- A Bigger Brother -- A Strange Couple -- A Global Communist Revolution -- Surprising Success -- By Reaction Against -- Directly Guided -- By Imitation -- Failure, the Mother of Improvisation -- The Carousel of Revolution -- The Other Carousel: Reaction -- A World Safe for Democracy -- It's the Economy, Stupid! -- A Game Changer -- Second Round -- So Long to the Global Train! -- 4. When We Became Americans (1946 -- 1973) -- The World Series -- Hegemony and Empire: Great Britain -- Hegemony and Empire: The United States -- Two Centuries at Odds -- And Counting -- A Fourfold Big Stick -- A Huge Carrot Named the U.S. Economy -- An Alluring Dream Named the American Dream -- The Swirling Synergy of the American Triplets -- Great Britain: 20 -- United States: 34. A Different Model for World Hegemony -- 5. Or Else (1946 -- 1973) -- A Very Straightforward Global Story for a Very Straightforward Answer -- From War to War to Cold War -- On the Right Side of the World Hegemon -- On the Wrong Side of the Counter-Hegemon -- The Soviet Union and China -- The Counter-Hegemonic Triplets: Powerful, but not as Much -- Under the Tracks of Entwined Nationalism and Socialism: Peron, Evita, and the Socialist Fatherland -- Entwined Nationalism and Socialism Throughout the Latin American Oligarchic Republics -- Entwined Nationalism and Socialism in Recently Emancipated Colonies Throughout the Middle East -- Straightforward: From Decolonization into Entwined Nationalism and Socialism in South Asia, South East Asia, and Africa -- Entwined Nationalism and Socialism Around the World: The Global Rise of Anti-Hegemonic Party States -- Pyramids into Diamonds -- 6. All Together Now: Becoming Global Citizens (1968 -- 2003) -- The Revolutionary Processes (1968 -- 1991): E Pluribus Unum (One Out of Many) -- 1968, A Global Revolt -- 1973, The Tom Kippur or Ramadan War -- 1978, Deng Xiaoping Means "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" -- 1982, Malvinas/Falkland Islands War -- 1985, Gorbachev Means Glasnost and Perestroika -- 1989, A Global Revolution -- 1991, Hegemony and Globalization Reconciled -- Everything Falling into Place -- The Revolutionary Results: Neoliberal Reforms, Stronger Than Revolutions -- Neoliberalism Means Growing Inequalities: The "Great Bifurcation" -- From Melting Pot to Salad Bowl -- Third Wave of Democracy -- 7. Falling Apart. Back to Nationalism (2003 -- 2020) -- Hegemony and Globalization Reconciled but Spiraling Down -- Shaken American World Hegemony -- 2007 Shaken Neoliberal Globalization -- Neoliberalism Challenged Around the World -- A Couple of Trump Cards: Technological and Ecological Disruptions -- 8. The Big Picture: Overall Patterns Amidst Convoluted Developments -- A Brief Recapitulation of Convoluted Developments -- Overall Patterns: Fivefold Correspondences -- Overall Patterns and Some of the Questions of the Present and Future -- Global Trajectories Crystalized in Global Regimes.

Call Number

JFD 22-1655

ISBN

• 9783030824198
• 3030824195

OCLC

1263816611

Author

Olstein, Diego Adrián, author.

Title

A brief history of now : the past and present of global power / Diego Olstein.

Publisher

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1800-2099

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783030824204

Research Call Number

JFD 22-1655