A history of the Seventies : the political, cultural, social and economical developments that shaped the modern world
Record details
- ISBN: 9781622735297
- ISBN: 1622735293
- ISBN: 9781622735891
- ISBN: 1622735897
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (378 pages)
remote - Publisher: Wilmington, DE : Vernon Press, 2019.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | PART 1 TYPOLOGY OF THE TIME SPAN 1945-2018 -- 1. The Seventies' Gap -- 2. Transition Period -- PART 2 CLIMATE OF THE SEVENTIES -- PART 2.1 End of the Vietnam War -- 3. Vietnam -- 4. American Polarization of the Early Seventies -- 5. Further Setbacks -- 6. Paris Peace Accords -- 7. Nixon Policies -- PART 2.2 Watergate -- 8. The Scandal -- 9. Consequences -- PART 2.3 Financial Scandals -- 10. Franklin National Bank -- PART 2.4 Counterculture -- 11. The New Left -- 12. Introduction to Counterculture -- 13. Counterculture -- 14. Rock Music -- 15. Fashion -- 16. Drug Issues -- 17. Feminism -- 18. Radical Feminism -- 19. Environmentalism -- 20. Alternative communes -- 21. The Informality of the Seventies -- PART 2.5 Political Climate of the Seventies -- 22. Restiveness of the Early Seventies -- 23. The American Divide -- 24. The Violent International Atmosphere of the Seventies -- 25. Yom Kippur War -- PART 2.6 The Normality of the Seventies -- 26. Some General Data -- 27. Technology and Developments -- 28. Deindustrialization -- 29. Concorde -- 30. 1973-Laws -- 31. Books -- PART 3 THE NEW ECONOMIC ORDER 123 -- PART 3.1 The Radical Economic Transformation during the Seventies -- 32. Bretton Woods Agreement -- 33. The Nixon Shock -- 34. Deregulation -- 35. Neoliberalism -- PART 3.2 1973-Oil Crisis -- 36. Oil Crisis -- 37. Some Economic Figure -- 38. Genesis of the Oil Shock -- 39. Further Considerations -- 40. Summing up -- 41. Cheap Money of the Seventies -- 42. Energy, Inflation and Unemployment -- 43. Lack of Alternative Solutions -- 44. Further Consequences of the 1973-Oil Crisis -- 45. Oil Crisis in the United States -- 46. Oil Crisis in Europe -- PART 4 CONSEQUENCES OF THE SEVENTIES -- 47. The Seventies as a Momentous Decade -- PART 4.1 End of the Long Boom -- 48. The Long Boom -- 49. Origins of the Long Boom -- 50. Baby Boom -- 51. The Good Life -- 52. Consequences of the End of the Long Boom -- PART 4.2 Cold War Evolution -- 53. Cold War Evolution -- 54. Cold War II -- PART 4.3 Oil and Gas Litigation -- 55. Oil Disputes -- PART 5 CONSEQUENCES OF THE OIL CRISIS OVER DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- 56. Oil Crisis and Developing Countries -- PART 5.1 Ethiopia -- 57. Fall of the Ethiopian Empire -- 58. Post-Imperial Ethiopia -- 59. Ethiopia in the Eighties -- 60. Links and Further Development -- PART 5.2 Bangladesh -- 61. 1974-Famine -- PART 5.3 Chile -- 62. Salvador Allende -- 63. Alleged Foreign Meddling -- 64. Further Economic Factors -- 65. The Invisible Blockade -- 66. Relationship between the Nixon Shock and the 1973-Chilean Crisis -- PART 5.4 Iran -- 67. Iran of Mohammed Mosaddegh -- 68. Reza Pahlavi -- 69. Persepolis -- 70. The loss of the Western Support -- 71. Iranian Revolution -- 72. Destabilizing Effects -- 73. Resumption of Sunni-Shia Tensions -- 74. Radicalization of the Mideast -- 75. Consequences of the Iranian Revolution for Iraq -- 76. Lebanese Civil War -- 77. Hezbollah -- 78. Arab Spring -- PART 5.5 Egypt -- 79. Camp David -- PART 5.6 Iraq -- 80. Iraqi Factionalism -- 81. Ascent to Power of Saddam Hussein -- 82. Saddam Hussein -- 83. Influence of the Oil Crisis on the Mideast Recent History -- 84. Political Background of the Iran-Iraq War -- 85. Iran-Iraq War -- 86. Outline of Future Developments -- PART 6 SECOND OIL CRISIS OF THE SEVENTIES -- 87. 1979-Oil Crisis -- 88. The Mexican Crisis -- 89. Consequences of High Oil Prices -- PART 7 SOVIET UNION BREAKUP -- 90. Leonid Brezhnev -- 91. The Soviet Crisis -- 92. Costs of the Intelligence Service Activities -- 93. Background of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan -- 94. The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan -- 95. Fall of the Berlin Wall -- 96. Link between Oil and Soviet Crisis -- PART 8 LEGACIES OF THE SEVENTIES -- 97. Political Radicalism -- 98. Boom of the Media -- 99. Individualism as Legacy of the Seventies -- 100. Political Consent as Legacy of the Seventies -- 101. Summing Up. |
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