This volume, covering the post-imperial age, is part of a series which aims to describe and analyze the history of the World since 1945. The series is intended ... » 

This volume, covering the post-imperial age, is part of a series which aims to describe and analyze the history of the World since 1945. The series is intended to provide scholarly, yet readable, accounts of the way in which today's world has been shaped by the years after the end of World War II. «