The 20th Century: A Retrospective

TRAMA

Three grand themes characterized the twentieth century: crises on a scale that outstripped any in human history, revolutionary ideology and action that brought social and political transformation on a global scale, and new technologies breathtaking in their pace and innovation. Through a discussion of overarching ideas and through case studies, this book explores the contradictions, commonalties, and varieties of human experience. Thematic chapters deal with issues such as modernization, imperialism, social revolutions, fascism, feminism, fundamentalism, war and peace, science, population, and economic inequality.

NOTE EDITORE

This book is a collage of human experiences made from overlapping pieces and woven together by themes of crises, revolution, and change, aiming to raise issues that people in the twentieth-century world tried to address.

SOMMARIO

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Early Century -- The Paradoxes of Modernization -- Imperialism and Colonial Rule -- Materialism and the Crisis of Capitalism -- Revolutions Before Bolshevism -- Bolshevism Reshapes Revolution -- Fascism and the Holocaust -- The Later Century -- Independence -- Peasants and Peasant Revolts -- 1968 and New Radical Visions -- Islamic Fundamentalism in Critical Perspective -- Century-Long Themes -- Feminism in the Modern World -- War and Peace -- Science -- Population Growth -- Nations at Risk -- Conclusion

AUTORE

Phyllis Martin, James Riley

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780813326917
• Dimensioni: 10 x 7 in Ø 1.80 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 452