20th Century: A Retrospective

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Phyllis Martin, James Riley

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Choi Chatterjee, Choi Gould Chatterjee, Choitali Chatterjee, Chatterjee Choi, Jeffrey Gould, Jeffrey L. Gould, Phyllis Martin, Phyllis M. Martin, Martin Phyllis, James Riley, James C. Riley, Riley James, Jeffrey N Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
• Verlag: Perseus Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 18.02.2002
• EAN: 9780813326917
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-2691-7
• Seiten: 448
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), 20th Century, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, General and world history