Jonathan Davis (UK University of East Anglia)

The Global 1980s

People, Power and Profit

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Global 1980s takes an international perspective on the upheaval across the world during the long 1980s (1979-1991) with the end of the Cold War, a move towards a free-market economic system, and the increasing connectedness of the world.

Produktdetails

• Decades in Global History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781138818378
• ISBN-10: 1138818372
• Artikelnr.: 55187245

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Davis is Senior Lecturer in Russian History at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He is co-editor of Labour and the Left in the 1980s (2018) and The British Labour Party and the Wider World (2008). He also writes about Soviet history.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: 1979-1982 Chapter One: Revolutions
in east and west: Iran and Nicaragua Chapter Two: Thatcher, Reagan and free
markets: ghost towns, rust belts and a new individualism Chapter Three:
Inside the Soviet bloc: the end of détente and the rise of Solidarnö¿
Chapter Four: Africa and decolonisation: twenty years after the 'winds of
change' Part Two: 1983-1985 Chapter Five: Changes in China: the
consequences of Deng Xiaoping's reforms Chapter Six: Bombs, jobs and
famine: music and global concerns Chapter Seven: Global crises: AIDS, acid
rain and the ozone layer Chapter Eight: Mikhail Gorbachev: new man, new
thinking Part Three: 1986-1988 Chapter Nine: Making a 'modern' decade:
computers, videos and yuppies Chapter Ten: The first wave of Indian
liberalisation: the Rajiv Gandhi era Chapter Eleven: South Korea's twisted
path to democracy Chapter Twelve: The Middle East in turmoil: Iran-Iraq and
the first intifada Part Four: 1989-1991 Chapter Thirteen: Reagan and
Thatcher depart, a new world order emerges Chapter Fourteen: Latin
America's transition to democracy: Chile and Haiti Chapter Fifteen: 'Free
Nelson Mandela': the end of apartheid in South Africa Chapter Sixteen: The
communist world breaks Conclusion Bibliography Index