Concise History of the World since 1945

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.