The best of times, the worst of times : a history of now / Michael Burleigh.
By: Burleigh, Michael [author.]
Publisher: London : Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2017Description: xvi, 431 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509847884; 9781509847921Subject(s): World politics -- 21st century | Economic history -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 909.831 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 909.831 BUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 015347 |
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| 909.83 WES Megachange : economic disruption, political upheaval and social strife in the 21st century / | 909.83 ZAK The post-American world / | 909.831 AHM The thistle and the drone : how America's War on Terror became a global war on tribal Islam / | 909.831 BUR The best of times, the worst of times : a history of now / | 909.831 MEA The great delusion : | 909.831 THO Disorder : hard times in the 21st century / | 909.8312 MAH Has the West lost it? : |
1. Two shocks that made our world 'incandescent with moral clarity': the post-Cold War present -- 2. Gulf rivals -- 3. Islamic State (ISIS): messages in blood -- 4. The sick man of Europe: Erdoğan's Turkey -- 5. Failed nation?: Russia under Putin -- 6. China: a country for old men -- 7. The USA: the noisy nation --- 8. Empire of virtue: the European Union.
"In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the 21st century - first, the 2003 war with Iraq and its chaotic aftermath and, second, the financial crash of 2008 - have threatened the general acceptance that continued progress under the benign (or sometimes not so benign) gaze of the western powers is the only way forwards. And as America turns inwards and Europe is beset by austerity politics and populist nationalism, the post-war consensus looks less and less secure. But is this really the worst of times? In a forensic examination of the world we now live in, historian Michael Burleigh sets out to answer that question."-- Provided by publisher.