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Informationen zum Autor Michael Adas is Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History and Board of Governor's Chair, Rutgers University at New Brunswick. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Machines as the Measure of Men, which won the Dexter prize in 1991, and more recently Dominance by Design. He is the co-author (with Peter Stearns and Stuart Schwartz), of World Civilizations: The Global Experience, which is now in its sixth edition. Klappentext Michael Adas is Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History and Board of Governor's Chair, Rutgers University at New Brunswick. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Machines as the Measure of Men, which won the Dexter prize in 1991, and more recently Dominance by Design. He is the co-author (with Peter Stearns and Stuart Schwartz), of World Civilizations: The Global Experience, which is now in its sixth edition. Zusammenfassung Probing the paradoxes of "the long twentieth century"--from unprecedented human opportunity and deprivation to the rise of the United States as a hegemon Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction / Michael Adas; World Migration in the Long Twentieth Century / Jose Moya and Adam McKeown; Twentieth Century Urbanization: In Search of an Urban Paradigm for an Urban World / Howard Spodek; Women in the Twentieth Century World / Bonnie G. Smith; The Gendering of Human Rights in the International Systems of Law in the Twentieth Century / Jean H. Quataert; The Impact of the Two World Wars in a Century of Violence / John H. Morrow! Jr.; Locating the United States in Twentieth-Century World History / Carl J. Guarneri; The Technopolitics of Cold War: Towards a Transregional Perspective / Gabrielle Hecht and Paul N. Edwards; A Century of Environmental Transitions / Richard P. Tucker About the Contributors
