Richard Crowder

Aftermath (eBook, ePUB)

The Makers of the Postwar World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a decade, between 1940 and 1950, the old world order collapsed, and a new one was created. Old European empires - France, Germany and the United Kingdom - receded, replaced by two new superpowers - the Soviet Union and the United States. Beyond Europe, a swath of new countries was created: India, Communist China, Israel and the modern Arab states, Indonesia, the Koreas. But there were darker shadows too, cast by the onset of the Cold War: the failure to establish international controls on atomic energy, or the growth of the national security state and modern intelligence apparatus. This era also produced some of the most remarkable statesmen of modern times, including leaders such as Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Truman, de Gaulle, Nehru and Mao Tsetung; diplomats like George Marshall, Dean Acheson, Anthony Eden, Ernest Bevin and Robert Schuman; and international fixers, such as Averell Harriman, John Maynard Keynes, or Jean Monnet. Their stories form the core fabric of this book. Richard Crowder examines their shared ambition to rebuild the world, and launch a second age of globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857738431
• Artikelnr.: 44174998

Autorenporträt

Richard Crowder is a British diplomat and independent historian. Educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities, he served in UK Foreign Office for over two decades, with postings in Moscow, Brussels and Islamabad. He is the author of Aftermath: Makers of the Postwar World (2015) and Détente: The Chance to End the Cold War (2020).