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Turbulent Empires
- A History of Global Capitalism Since 1945
- Narrated by: Kevin Moriarty
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Publisher's Summary
As Europe rebuilt after the devastation of the Second World War, the former colonies of the major imperial powers sought their independence at the same time the US extended its economic and political power globally. In Turbulent Empires, Mike Mason analyzes the struggles for postcolonial sovereignty and economic domination and how these competing forces led to conflicts and shifting alliances around the postwar world.
Turbulent Empires surveys the major polities and economies of Africa, Asia, Latin America, Russia, and the West and traces the trajectory of nationalist ruling classes bent on exercising sovereign control over economic resources. It emphasizes the convulsions that brought about unanticipated realignments and shocking reversals, such as the rise and fall of regimes, continuous interventions in the Muslim world, the sudden collapse of the commodities supercycle, and the continuing challenge of inequality.
By the second decade of the 21st century, the global economic crisis of 2008 raised the question of a new global order while the question of American decline, captured in the slogan "Make America Great Again”, became commonplace.
Both erudite and accessibly written, Turbulent Empires provides an insightful and sweeping analysis of world political and economic history that is an ideal introduction to postwar political science, history, and development studies.
"A gem of a book - accomplished with impressive erudition, written with panache, brimming with insight. A book like this is the result a lifetime of learning." (Jonathan Levy, University of Chicago)
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- Miloshka
- 15-04-2024
Missed opportunity: Partisan and lacking in detailed knowledge
This is a missed opportunity. It presents quite a few interesting angles however, details are put together to fit a preconceived ideological position. This is particularly clear in the Iran chapter that presents more hearsay than factually form material. The ideological position of the author here is only thinly veiled.
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