Series: The Making of the Contemporary World
Today environmental issues are part of daily life, a feature of the modern world almost everyone now recognises. Contemporary environmentalism has promoted a way of speaking and thinking about the environment that was not possible or imaginable decades ago. Environmentalism Since 1945 provides a...
Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
Series: The Making of the Contemporary World
The emergence of China as a dominant regional power with global influence is a significant phenomenon in the twenty-first century. Its origin could be traced back to 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong came to power and vowed to transform China and the world. After the ‘century...
Published August 1st 2011 by Routledge
Series: The Making of the Contemporary World
The international economy since 1945 has endured dramatic changes in its balance of power, from the early period of prosperity for industrialised nations, to the 2008/9 global crisis. In this volume Catherine Schenk outlines these huge changes, examines how the world’s economic leaders have tried...
Published February 23rd 2011 by Routledge
Series: The Making of the Contemporary World
The Extreme Right in Western Europe is a concise introduction to one of the most persistent facets of late twentieth-century history, politics and society. The legacy of the Nazi era and the increasingly unacceptable face of extremism all militated against the success of far right-wing parties...
Published March 25th 2008 by Routledge
Series: The Making of the Contemporary World
Southern Africa surveys the contemporary history of the whole region encompassing economic, social, political, security, foreign policy, health, environmental and gender issues in one short succinct volume. Positioning the collapse of Portugal’s African Empire in the context of the region’s...
Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge
Series: The Making of the Contemporary World
This third edition of Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945 analyzes the nature of conflict in the Middle East, with its racial, ethnic, political, cultural, religious and economic factors. Throughout the book Peter Hinchcliffe and Beverley Milton-Edwards put the main conflicts into their wider...
Published September 6th 2007 by Routledge
Series: The Making of the Contemporary World
US Foreign Policy since 1945 is an essential introduction to postwar US foreign policy. It combines chronologic and thematic chapters to provide an historical account of US policy and to explore key questions about its design, control and effects. New features of this second edition...
Published July 11th 2006 by Routledge
Series: The Making of the Contemporary World
Examining a number of case studies, including Palestinian, Afghan and Iraqi refugees, David J. Whittaker’s book provides a balanced introduction to this very controversial subject. Fuelled by extensive coverage in the media, the issue of asylum seekers and refugees is one of the most talked about...
Published November 23rd 2005 by Routledge
Series: The Making of the Contemporary World
Beverley Milton-Edwards analyzes the roots and emergence of new Islamic movements and the main thinkers that inspired them.Providing a much-needed historical overview, the main facets of Islamic fundamentalism are put in a global context, with a thematic debate of issues such as: the effects of...
Published December 1st 2004 by Routledge
Series: The Making of the Contemporary World
Bringing the story up-to-date, this expanded new edition takes into account recent developments including Argentina's 2001 debt default and the 2002 presidential election in Brazil. Latin America provides an introduction to the economic and political history of the region in the last half century....
Published June 30th 2004 by Routledge
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