The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform - Odd Arne Westad, Chen Jian (Yale University Press, 2024)

The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform

Odd Arne Westad, Chen Jian

Yale University Press, 2024, 424 páginas

The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history.

Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao's Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world.

In this rigorous account, Westad and Chen construct a panorama of catastrophe and progress in China. They chronicle China's gradual opening to the world--the interplay of power in an era of aged and ailing leadership, the people's rebellion against the earlier government system, and the roles of unlikely characters: overseas Chinese capitalists, American engineers, Japanese professors, and German designers. This is a story of revolutionary change that neither foreigners nor the Chinese themselves could have predicted.

Sobre os autores :

Odd Arne Westad is the Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. His books include The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, winner of the Bancroft Prize, and Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750. He lives in New Haven, CT. 

Chen Jian is Distinguished Global Network Professor of History at NYU and NYU Shanghai and Hu Shih Professor of History Emeritus at Cornell University. His books include China's Road to the Korean War, Mao's China and the Cold War, and Zhou Enlai: A Life. He lives in Ithaca, NY.

Índice

1 Introduction, 1

1 To the Cultural Revolution, 8

2 Great Disorder under Heaven, 36

3 A Successor Dies, 61

4 Americans, 86

5 The Fall and Rise and Fall of Deng Xiaoping, 109

6 1976, 135

7 Succession Struggles, 165

8 Visions of China, 189

9 Imagining the World, 216

10 A New China, 247

11 To the Point of No Return?, 273

12 The Making and Unmaking of Chinese Reform, 300

Notes, 311

Sources Cited, 369

Index 395

Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War - Nicholas Mulder (Yale)

 Já que se fala em sanções econômicas, melhor consultar um especialista. Não, ainda não comprei, vou tentar ler uma amostra no Kindle e depois decidir se vale a pena comprar ou não.

Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

Nicholas Mulder

(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022)

The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development.
 
“Valuable . . . offers many lessons for Western policy makers today.”—Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal
 
"The lessons are sobering.”—The Economist
 
“Original and persuasive. . . . For those who see economic sanctions as a relatively mild way of expressing displeasure at a country’s behavior, this book . . . will come as something of a revelation.”—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs 

Book: 
Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war. This view, however, ignores the dark paradox at their core: designed to prevent war, economic sanctions are modeled on devastating techniques of warfare.  
 
Tracing the use of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the policing of colonial empires and the interwar confrontation with fascism, Nicholas Mulder uses extensive archival research in a political, economic, legal, and military history that reveals how a coercive wartime tool was adopted as an instrument of peacekeeping by the League of Nations. This timely study casts an overdue light on why sanctions are widely considered a form of war, and why their unintended consequences are so tremendous.

Nicholas Mulder is an assistant professor of modern European history at Cornell University and regular contributor to Foreign Policy and The Nation.

ISBN: 9780300259360
Publication Date: January 25, 2022

448 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
15 b/w illus.