Introduction: The 'Long 1970s: New Perspectives on an Epoch-Making Decade

Poul Villaume; Rasmus Mølgaard Mariager; Helle Porsdam

Introduction: The 'Long 1970s: New Perspectives on an Epoch-Making Decade

Poul Villaume, Rasmus Mølgaard Mariager, Helle Porsdam

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Abstract

Among the technologies that have shaped the late twentieth century, one of the most important has been the personal computer (PC). It was US Cold War spending on military projects that originally funded this as well as other technological discoveries. Yet, if you ‘take a look at the standard textbooks on post-World War II America’, US historian Roy Rosenzweig wrote in the American Historical Review in 1998, ‘you will search in vain through the index for references to the internet or its predecessor, the ARPANET; even mentions of “computers” are few and far between’. yet today most would agree that there is one additional historical context which must be mentioned when we talk about the ‘long 1970s’ and the rise of digital communication: the decolonization efforts of former European colonies. The 1970s was the decade during which, as the title of a recent volume of essays proclaims, the world suffered a ‘Shock of the Global’.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Long 1970s : Human RIghts, East-West Détente, and Transnational Relations
Editors	Poul Villaume, Rasmus Mariager, Helle Porsdam
Place of Publication	England
Publisher	Routledge
Publication date	1 Jan 2016
Pages	1-11
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4724-5940-4
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2016

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Faculty of Humanities
World History

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Introduction: The 'Long 1970s: New Perspectives on an Epoch-Making Decade. / Villaume, Poul ; Mariager, Rasmus Mølgaard ; Porsdam, Helle.
The Long 1970s: Human RIghts, East-West Détente, and Transnational Relations. ed. / Poul Villaume; Rasmus Mariager; Helle Porsdam. England: Routledge, 2016. p. 1-11.

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