The Ebbing of European Ascendancy An International History of the World 1914-1945

by Marks, Sally

• ISBN13: 9780340807682
• ISBN10: 0340807687
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-18
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

In a space of little over 30 years, the world was transformed. The European great powers were no longer ascendant, even if that was not yet fully revealed to them, and the US, a regional power as of 1914, now belonged to the wholly new category of "superpower." What happened in this short period to work such a dramatic change? The answer lies neither in Europe alone norin the West more broadly, and one of the virtues of this bold new international history of the period that Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America are allowed to play their parts. It treats the Asian and European crises and wars of 1931-45, for example, as a single interlocking whole, as world leaders at the time were forced to do. It also acknowledges to an unusual degree the importance of imperial and economic circumstances in framing the policies of states towards one another.

Table of Contents

Preface
Prologue: Europe's World	p. 1
Diplomacy and the State System to 1900	p. 2
Europe's War	p. 17
The Coming of the First World War	p. 19
The First World War	p. 38
The Russian Revolution	p. 62
The West's Peace	p. 79
The Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty	p. 81
The Eastern Treaties, 1919-1923	p. 100
The West's World	p. 121
The Imperial Factor	p. 123
Sub-Saharan Africa	p. 151
The Middle East	p. 173
East Asia	p. 202
Latin America	p. 225
The United States	p. 254
Europe in the 1920s	p. 272
The World's Crises	p. 301
The Great Depression	p. 303
Challenges of the Dissatisfied, 1931-1937	p. 317
The World's War	p. 343
War East and West, 1937-1941	p. 345
World War II, 1942-1945	p. 374
Epilogue: A Different World	p. 405
The Aftermath	p. 407
Further Reading	p. 426
Index	p. 457
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