Routledge Studies on History and Globalization

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1. The End of the First Indochina War

   A Global History

   By James Waite

   Series: Routledge Studies on History and Globalization

   The French withdrawal from Vietnam in 1954 was the product of global pressures and triggered significant global consequences. By treating the war as an international issue, this book places Indochina at the center of the Cold War in the mid-1950s. Arguing that the Indochina War cannot be understood...

   Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Globalization of Music in History

   By Richard Wetzel

   Series: Routledge Studies on History and Globalization

   This book contextualizes a globalization process that has since ancient times involved the creation, use, and world-wide movement of song, instrumental music, musical drama, music with dance, concert, secular, popular and religious music. Integral to the process have been political, economic,...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
3. Globalizing Human Rights

   Private Citizens, the Soviet Union, and the West

   By Christian Peterson

   Series: Routledge Studies on History and Globalization

   Globalizing Human Rights explores the complexities of the role human rights played in U.S.-Soviet relations during the 1970s and 1980s. It will show how private citizens exploited the larger effects of contemporary globalization and the language of the Final Act to enlist the U.S. government in a...

   Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge