A Concise History of the World since 1945: States and Peoples

W.M. Spellman explores the past half century focusing on key topics such as human migration, science and technology, international business, religion and politics, and the break-up of Europe's overseas empires. Two central points of debate are examined: the struggle between centralized socialism and free-market capitalism and the interaction between the forces of cultural fragmentation and the competing integrative forces of "globalization" or world culture.