Companion to International History 1900 - 2001

Gordon Martel is Professor of History at University of Northern British Columbia. He is author of Imperial Diplomacy (1985) and The Origins of the First World War (second edition, 1996), and editor of The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered (second edition, 2002), and The Times and Appeasement (2002). He is also General Editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of War (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).

• Notes on Contributors ix  Preface and Acknowledgments xivMaps xvIntroduction 1Twentieth-Century International History: The Changing Face of Empire 3Gordon MartelPart I Undertones 111 Imperialism 13John MacKenzie2 Nationalism 26R. J. B. Bosworth3 Internationalism 39Andrew Webster4 A Shrinking World 52Jeffrey A. Engel5 A Changing Diplomatic World 65Ralph BlessingPart II The First World War and Its Consequences 796 The Triple Alliance 81Jürgen Angelow and Gordon Martel7 The Ententes, 1894–1914 94Keith Neilson8 The July Crisis 105Samuel R. Williamson, Jr.9 Wartime Promises and Postwar Europe 118David Dutton10 Wartime Promises and the Postwar Empires 131Matthew Hughes11 Envisioning a New World Order 143Ian D. Thatcher12 The Versailles System 154Erik Goldstein13 The Legacy of the First World War 166Gaynor JohnsonPart III The Coming of the Second World War 17914 Why International Finance Mattered: 1919–1939 181Robert D. Boyce15 The Far Eastern Crisis and the Balance of Power, 1920–1941 195Greg Kennedy16 The Challenge to Empire in the Middle East and Asia 207Gavin D. Brockett17 Mussolini’s War in Ethiopia 220Giuseppe Finaldi18 The Challenge in Europe, 1935–1941 233P. M. H. Bell19 Appeasement 243Andrew Crozier20 Stalin and the West 257Alexander Hill21 The United States and the End of Isolation 269Justus D. DoeneckePart IV From Grand Alliance to Cold War 28322 The Grand Alliance, 1941–1945 285Warren F. Kimball23 A Bipolar World 299Saki Ruth Dockrill24 A Third World? 314Norrie MacQueen25 Making the New Europe: European Integration since 1950 327Piers Ludlow26 The Making of Modern Southeast Asia in the Age of Decolonization and the Cold War 340Kevin Ruane27 The Middle East, 1945–1991: The Making of a Mare’s Nest 354Saul Kelly28 The Sino-Soviet Alliance 366Sergey RadchenkoPart V A New World Order? 37929 The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the End of the Cold War 381Martin McCauley30 War and Peace in the Global Community, 1989–2001 394Lloyd E. Ambrosius31 Globalization 408Alfred E. Eckes32 Terrorism: September 11, 2001 and its Consequences 422Michael BauerBibliography 437Index 459