Governing the World : The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present Paperback - 2013
by Mazower, Mark
- Used
Description
Details
- Title Governing the World : The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present
- Author Mazower, Mark
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2013-08-27
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4762066-6
- ISBN 9780143123941 / 0143123947
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.1 in (21.84 x 14.22 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Modern
- Dewey Decimal Code 321.04
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Summary
The story of global cooperation is a tale of dreamers goading us to find common cause in remedying humanity’s worst problems. But international institutions are also tools for the powers that be to advance their own interests. Mark Mazower’s Governing the World tells the epic, two-hundred-year story of that inevitable tension—the unstable and often surprising alchemy between ideas and power. From the rubble of the Napoleonic empire in the nineteenth century through the birth of the League of Nations and the United Nations in the twentieth century to the dominance of global finance at the turn of the millennium, Mazower masterfully explores the current era of international life as Western dominance wanes and a new global balance of powers emerges.
