TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sperber,Jonathan
TI  - The age of interconnection: a global history of the second half of the twentieth century 
SN  - 9780197663028
AV  - D421 
U1  - 909.825 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History
KW  - ukslc
KW  - thema
N1  - Also issued in print: 2023; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Jonathan Sperber guides readers through six decades of global history, from the end of World War Two to the onset of the new millenium. As Sperber's immersive and propulsive book reveals, the defining quality of these decades involved the rising and unstoppable flow of people, goods, capital, and ideas across boundaries, continents and oceans, creating prosperity in some parts of the world, destitution in others, increasing a sense of collective responsibility while also reinforcing nationalism and xenophobia. It was an age of transformation in every realm of human existence: from relations with nature to relations between nations, superpowers to emerging states; from the forms of production to the foundations of religious faith. These changes took on an unprecedentedly global scale. The world both developed and contracted. Most of all, it became interconnected
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