An illuminating book that provides a new way to look at the international history of the 1970s. It redirects our attention away from the familiar narrative and instead places the decade in a new perspective that allows us to evaluate longer-term trends, including the evolution of global society, the dynamics of the international economy, the breakup of colonial empires, the impact of popular culture, and the declining realm for autonomous national choices. This superb work will be greeted with enthusiasm.
--Melvyn P. Leffler, author of
For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (20100424)
This volume is remarkable for uniformly strong essays and the cohesiveness of its argument that the 1970s were a distinctive era, and that the key to understanding the decade is the concept of globalization. Thought-provoking and consistently interesting, this book should have a very broad audience among both scholars and general readers alike.
--Thomas Alan Schwartz, author of
Lyndon Johnson and Europe (20100601)
A stellar group of authors tackles the transformation of the world in the 1970s, showing how the decade should be seen as ushering in the contemporary global age. Ranging from the end of U.S. economic hegemony to the rise of environmentalism, from the rise of China to the growing influence of Islam, from transnational business transactions to human rights, this book carefully examines the 'shock' of globalization and makes a major contribution to international history.
--Akira Iriye, author of
China and Japan in the Global Setting[A] masterful book.
--Michael Case (
Irish Times )
A serious and impressive in-depth study of an unjustly neglected decade.
--Bill Perrett (
The Age )
A grab-bag of lively academic essays that covers everything from the proliferation of global non-government organizations to the worldwide women's rights movement to smallpox eradication.
--Christian Caryl (
Foreign Policy )
Niall Ferguson is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School.
Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, and the author of
Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany.
Erez Manela is Professor of History, Harvard University.
Daniel Sargent is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jeremy Adelman is Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Civilization and Culture, Princeton University.
Thomas Borstelmann is Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor of Modern World History, University of Nebraska.
Matthew Connelly is Professor of History, Columbia University.
Francis J. Gavin is Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin.
Louis Hyman is Associate at McKinsey & Company.
Ayesha Jalal is Mary Richardson Professor of History, Tufts University.
Stephen Kotkin is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University.
Mark Atwood Lawrence is Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin.
J. R. McNeill is University Professor, Department of History and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
Michael Cotey Morgan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, Yale University.
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen is Assistant Professor of History, University of Kentucky.
author>Jocelyn Olcott is Associate Professor of History, Duke University.
Vernie Oliveiro is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, Harvard University.
Andrew Preston is University Lecturer in History and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University.
Alan M. Taylor is Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis.
Rebecca J. Sheehan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Southern California.
Glenda Sluga is Professor of International History, University of Sydney.
Jeremi Suri is E. Gordon Fox Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
