The global 1970s : radicalism, reform, and crisis / Duco Hellema.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.

Legacies of the sixties: the start of the long seventies -- Everything is political: the early and mid-1970s -- Reform mania: the early and mid-1970s -- Self-reliance: the non-Western world in the early and mid-1970s -- The Communist states: the early and mid-1970s -- Crisis in the world economy: from the early to the late 1970s -- The free market alternative: the mid- and late 1970s -- Confrontation and deadlock: the late 1970s -- Dawn of a new world: the end of the seventies.

"The Global 1970s: Radicalism, Reform, and Crisis portrays the 1970s as a period of global transition and examines the explanations for this radical transformation. Divided into nine broadly chronological chapters and taking a global approach, it is essential reading for all students and scholars of twentieth-century global history"-- Provided by publisher.