Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 15
Maps......Page 16
Introduction......Page 24
Twentieth-Century International History: The Changing Face of Empire......Page 26
Part I: Undertones......Page 34
CHAPTER ONE: Imperialism......Page 36
CHAPTER TWO: Nationalism......Page 49
CHAPTER THREE: Internationalism......Page 62
CHAPTER FOUR: A Shrinking World......Page 75
CHAPTER FIVE: A Changing Diplomatic World......Page 88
Part II: The First World War and Its Consequences......Page 102
CHAPTER SIX: The Triple Alliance......Page 104
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Ententes, 1894–1914......Page 117
CHAPTER EIGHT: The July Crisis......Page 128
CHAPTER NINE: Wartime Promises and Postwar Europe......Page 141
CHAPTER TEN: Wartime Promises and the Postwar Empires......Page 154
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Envisioning a New World Order......Page 166
CHAPTER TWELVE: The Versailles System......Page 177
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Legacy of the First World War......Page 189
Part III: The Coming of the Second World War......Page 202
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Why International Finance Mattered: 1919–1939......Page 204
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Far Eastern Crisis and the Balance of Power, 1920–1941......Page 218
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Challenge to Empire in the Middle East and Asia......Page 230
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Mussolini’s War in Ethiopia......Page 243
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Challenge in Europe, 1935–1941......Page 256
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Appeasement......Page 266
CHAPTER TWENTY: Stalin and the West......Page 280
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: The United States and the End of Isolation......Page 292
Part IV From Grand Alliance to Cold War......Page 306
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: The Grand Alliance, 1941–1945......Page 308
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: A Bipolar World......Page 322
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: A Third World?......Page 337
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Making the New Europe: European Integration since 1950......Page 350
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: The Making of Modern Southeast Asia in the Age of Decolonization and the Cold War......Page 363
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: The Middle East, 1945–1991: The Making of a Mare’s Nest......Page 377
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: The Sino-Soviet Alliance......Page 389
Part V: A New World Order?......Page 402
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the End of the Cold War......Page 404
CHAPTER THIRTY: War and Peace in the Global Community, 1989–2001......Page 417
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: Globalization......Page 431
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Terrorism: September 11, 2001 and its Consequences......Page 445
Bibliography......Page 460
Index......Page 482