A Companion to International History 1900 - 2001

Martel, Gordon (Editor)

Blackwell Companions to World History

1. Edition July 2007
496 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-2574-1

John Wiley & Sons

Wiley Online Library

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A comprehensive overview of the most important international events, movements, and controversies of the 20th century.

* Written by distinguished scholars, each an authority in their field

* Explores influential, underlying themes such as imperialism, nationalism, internationalism, technological developments, and changes in diplomatic methods

* Addresses a broad range of topics, including diplomacy of wartime and peacemaking, the cold war era and the "new world order", the end of European empires, the rise of nationalism in the Third World, globalization, and terrorism

* Chronological organization makes the volume easily accessible

* Includes useful guides for further reading and research

Notes on Contributors ix

Preface and Acknowledgments xiv

Maps xv

Introduction 1

Twentieth-Century International History: The Changing Face of
Empire 3

Gordon Martel

Part I Undertones 11

1 Imperialism 13

John Mackenzie

2 Nationalism 26

R. J. B. Bosworth

3 Internationalism 39

Andrew Webster

4 A Shrinking World 52

Jeffrey A. Engel

5 A Changing Diplomatic World 65

Ralph Blessing

Part II The First World War and Its Consequences 79

6 The Triple Alliance 81

Jürgen Angelow and Gordon Martel

7 The Ententes, 1894-1914 94

Keith Neilson

8 The July Crisis 105

Samuel R. Williamson, Jr.

9 Wartime Promises and Postwar Europe 118

David Dutton

10 Wartime Promises and the Postwar Empires 131

Matthew Hughes

11 Envisioning a New World Order 143

Ian D. Thatcher

12 The Versailles System 154

Erik Goldstein

13 The Legacy of the First World War 166

Gaynor Johnson

Part III The Coming of the Second World War 179

14 Why International Finance Mattered: 1919-1939 181

Robert D. Boyce

15 The Far Eastern Crisis and the Balance of Power,
1920-1941 195

Greg Kennedy

16 The Challenge to Empire in the Middle East and Asia 207

Gavin D. Brockett

17 Mussolini's War in Ethiopia 220

Giuseppe Finaldi

18 The Challenge in Europe, 1935-1941 233

P. M. H. Bell

19 Appeasement 243

Andrew Crozier

20 Stalin and the West 257

Alexander Hill

21 The United States and the End of Isolation 269

Justus D. Doenecke

Part IV From Grand Alliance to Cold War 283

22 The Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 285

Warren F. Kimball

23 A Bipolar World 299

Saki Ruth Dockrill

24 A Third World? 314

Norrie MacQueen

25 Making the New Europe: European Integration since 1950
327

Piers Ludlow

26 The Making of Modern Southeast Asia in the Age of
Decolonization and the Cold War 340

Kevin Ruane

27 The Middle East, 1945-1991: The Making of a Mare's Nest
354

Saul Kelly

28 The Sino-Soviet Alliance 366

Sergey Radchenko

Part V A New World Order? 379

29 The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the End of the Cold War
381

Martin McCauley

30 War and Peace in the Global Community, 1989-2001
394

Lloyd E. Ambrosius

31 Globalization 408

Alfred E. Eckes

32 Terrorism: September 11, 2001 and its Consequences 422

Michael Bauer

Bibliography 437

Index 459

"A useful guide." (Reference Reviews, Issue 4 2008)

"Highly recommended. Standing out from this overall
impressive body of work are the contributions on the undertones and
causes of WWI ... essential further reading."
(Choice)

Gordon Martel is Professor of History at University of Northern British Columbia. He is author of Imperial Diplomacy (1985) and The Origins of the First World War (second edition, 1996), and editor of The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered (second edition, 2002), and The Times and Appeasement (2002).

G. Martel, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada