The 1914–2024 War Atlas - Modernity Deciphered Anew

deconstructs the contemporary widespread and well-known image of the 20th and 21st century, arguing for the continuity of the historical process covering the period 1914-2024.

List of contents

Chapter 1 The cogs
Chapter 2 Reading maps - framing the space
Chapter 3 The scenes
Chapter 4 Deciphering history - framing the time
Chapter 5 The milestones
Chapter 6 The first cog - European cycle of power and decay vs the new Hundred Years' War
Chapter 7 The European tides
Chapter 8 Deconstructing the 20th and 21st centuries - the new Hundred Years' War
Chapter 9 The borders
Chapter 10 The power systems and arrangements
Chapter 11 The international community voices
Conclusions

About the author

Marcin Wojciech Solarz is a geographer, political scientist, and the IR researcher at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies of the University of Warsaw, Poland; Head of the Department of Political and Historical Geography, FGRS UW; and Head of the project 'Forest Germans (G¿uchoniemcy, Walddeutsche): the past and present of forgotten local communities in the Carpathian Foothills,' 2020-2025. His previous works include: The Language of Global Development: A Misleading Geography (2014), The Global North-South Atlas: Mapping Global Change (2020), 'Geography and the world's development divides' in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Development (2023), and other works; he is also scientific editor and coauthor of the Atlas of Poland's Political Geography: Poland in the Modern World (2018; third place in the 'Atlases' category at the International Cartographic Exhibition in Japan in 2019), New Geographies of the Globalized World (2018), and the Atlas of Poland's Political Geography: Poland in the Modern World: 2022 Perspective (2022).

Summary

The 1914–2024 War Atlas deconstructs the contemporary widespread and well-known image of the 20th and 21st century, arguing for the continuity of the historical process covering the period 1914-2024.

Product details

• Authors: Marcin Wojciech Solarz
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032543963
• ISBN: 978-1-03-254396-3
• No. of pages: 164
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: farbige Illustrationen, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Military / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / World, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Warfare & defence, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, General and world history, Warfare and defence, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, history;war;conflict;politics;maps