Acknowledgements

This book began to struggle its way into the world about eight years ago when we were all teachers in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics. Since then we have become more dispersed, one of us going over the road to King's College London, via Leicester and Leeds, and another to the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.

Many people have helped in the writing of this book. In particular, we would like to thank those colleagues in Britain and the United States who read and commented on the chapters. Thus we express our gratitude to Ernest Bolt, Sylvia Ellis, David Fieldhouse, Patrick Hagopian, Akram Khater, Robert A. Mortimer, David S. Painter, David Reynolds, Jackie Sheehan, Avi Shlaim, Sue Townsend, David Welch, Arne Westad, Keith Wilson and Chris Wrigley. Above all, we would like to honour our debt to Akira Iriye, who took on the unenviable task of reading each chapter as it was completed. We hope that he is satisfied with the way in which we have taken his perceptive advice and criticisms on board.

Among those who have assisted at Routledge we would like to thank Heather McCallum, who first mentioned the need for a new history of the twentieth century, Victoria Peters who commissioned the second edition, Eve Setch who took over from her when Victoria went on maternity leave, Moira Taylor for pre­proposal and post-proposal development and helping with the pictures, but above all for her superhuman patience, understanding and unflagging support throughout both editions, Carol Fellingham-Webb for copyediting the expanded and updated book and Anna Hines for its production. At the London School of Economics we would like to thank Mina Moshkeri of the Cartography section, who did wonders for us with the maps and was patient with our muddle-headed requests for revisions.

Our individual acknowledgements are as follows. Antony Best would like to thank Saho for her patience and understanding as the ‘monster' was completed, the late Jasper the Dog for walking inspiration, and his parents for their usual kind assistance. Jussi would like to thank Jari for placing international history into its proper perspective by sharing his extended knowledge of the intergalactic adventures depicted in Star Wars. Joe would like to thank Catherine for her patience and support. And Kirsten would like to thank Hannah for inspiration and long mid-day naps which allowed her to work. Jussi, Joe and Kirsten would like to thank Antony for putting the final manuscript together despite his also having to attend to extended paperclip duties at the Department of International History.

The authors and publisher would like to thank the following for permission to reprint maps in print and electronic form:

Map 7.1 German expansion, 1935—39. From A Map of History of the Modern World, by Brian Catchpole. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education.

Map 8.1 German expansion in Europe, 1939—40. From A Map of History of the Modern World, by Brian Catchpole. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education.

Map 8.2 Japanese expansion in Asia, 1940—42. From A Map of History of the Modern World, by Brian Catchpole. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education.

Map 10.2 The Korean War. After Leffler, 1992.

Map 16.1 The United States and Latin America since 1945. After Paterson et al., American Foreign Relations, fourth edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Used with permission.