Twentieth Century History

Author : Richard W. Bulliet
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : 0231076282

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The Columbia History of the 20th Century by Richard W. Bulliet Pdf

In the parade of highlights with which many have tried to sum up the twentieth century, the overarching patterns and fundamental transformations often fail to come into focus. The Columbia History of the 20th Century, however, is much more than a chronicle of the previous century's front-page news. Instead, the book is a series of twenty-three linked interpretive essays on the most significant developments in modern times--ranging from athletics to art, the economy to the environment. Rather than presenting a linear narrative, each author uncovers patterns of worldwide change. James Mayall, for example, writes on nationalism from the rise of European fascism to the rise of Asian and African nations; Sheila Fitzpatrick traces the history of communism and socialism in Moscow and Havana. In her chapter on women and gender, Rosalind Rosenberg covers the progress of women's rights throughout the world, from Middle Eastern activism to the American feminist movement. Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim's history of sports traces the spread of Western sports to all corners of the globe and the West's appropriation of such activities as martial arts. In each, the important strands of history--events, ideas, leading figures, issues--come together to offer an illuminating look at cultural connection, diffusion, and conflict, showing in stark relief how this period has been unlike any preceding era of human history.

Author : Ivan T. Berend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139452649

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An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe by Ivan T. Berend Pdf

A major history of economic regimes and economic performance throughout the twentieth century. Ivan T. Berend looks at the historic development of the twentieth-century European economy, examining both its failures and its successes in responding to the challenges of this crisis-ridden and troubled but highly successful age. The book surveys the European economy's chronological development, the main factors of economic growth, and the various economic regimes that were invented and introduced in Europe during the twentieth century. Professor Berend shows how the vast disparity between the European regions that had characterized earlier periods gradually began to disappear during the course of the twentieth century as more and more countries reached a more or less similar level of economic development. This accessible book will be required reading for students in European economic history, economics, and modern European history.

Author : Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782385011

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Music and International History in the Twentieth Century by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht Pdf

Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century. For more than a century, both state and non-state actors have sought to employ sound and harmony to influence allies and enemies, resolve conflicts, and export their own culture around the world. This book asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence, and how the cultural encounters fostered by music changes our ideas about international history.

Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780795337321

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History of the Twentieth Century by Martin Gilbert Pdf

A chronological compilation of twentieth-century world events in one volume—from the acclaimed historian and biographer of Winston S. Churchill. The twentieth century has been one of the most unique in human history. It has seen the rise of some of humanity’s most important advances to date, as well as many of its most violent and terrifying wars. This is a condensed version of renowned historian Martin Gilbert’s masterful examination of the century’s history, offering the highlights of a three-volume work that covers more than three thousand pages. From the invention of aviation to the rise of the Internet, and from events and cataclysmic changes in Europe to those in Asia, Africa, and North America, Martin examines art, literature, war, religion, life and death, and celebration and renewal across the globe, and throughout this turbulent and astonishing century.

Author : Antony Best,Jussi M. Hanhimaki,Joseph A. Maiolo,Kirsten E. Schulze
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415207409

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International History of the Twentieth Century by Antony Best,Jussi M. Hanhimaki,Joseph A. Maiolo,Kirsten E. Schulze Pdf

Using their thematic and regional expertise, four prominent authors have produced an authoritative yet accessible account of the history of international relations in the last century, covering events in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.

Author : Jerald Podair,Darren Dochuk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317485667

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The Routledge History of Twentieth-Century America by Jerald Podair,Darren Dochuk Pdf

The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States is a comprehensive introduction to the most important trends and developments in the study of modern United States history. Driven by interdisciplinary scholarship, the thirty-four original chapters underscore the vast range of identities, perspectives and tensions that contributed to the growth and contested meanings of the United States in the twentieth century. The chronological and topical breadth of the collection highlights critical political and economic developments of the century while also drawing attention to relatively recent areas of research, including borderlands, technology and disability studies. Dynamic and flexible in its possible applications, The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States offers an exciting new resource for the study of modern American history.

Author : John Lukacs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674728592

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A Short History of the Twentieth Century by John Lukacs Pdf

The historian John Lukacs offers a concise history of the twentieth century—its two world wars and cold war, its nations and leaders. The great themes woven through this spirited narrative are inseparable from the author’s own intellectual preoccupations: the fading of liberalism, the rise of populism and nationalism, the achievements and dangers of technology, and the continuing democratization of the globe. The historical twentieth century began with the First World War in 1914 and ended seventy-five years later with the collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1989. The short century saw the end of European dominance and the rise of American power and influence throughout the world. The twentieth century was an American century—perhaps the American century. Lukacs explores in detail the phenomenon of national socialism (national socialist parties, he reminds us, have outlived the century), Hitler’s sole responsibility for the Second World War, and the crucial roles played by his determined opponents Churchill and Roosevelt. Between 1939 and 1942 Germany came closer to winning than many people suppose. Lukacs casts a hard eye at the consequences of the Second World War—the often misunderstood Soviet-American cold war—and at the shifting social and political developments in the Far and Middle East and elsewhere. In an eloquent closing meditation on the passing of the twentieth century, he reflects on the advance of democracy throughout the world and the limitations of human knowledge.

Author : R. Keith Schoppa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190497354

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The Twentieth Century by R. Keith Schoppa Pdf

From the collapse of empires to the rise of decolonized nation-states on the global stage. A chronological narrative of the recent past and a valuable historical standpoint from which to view the twenty-first century world

Author : Tony Judt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101559871

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Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt Pdf

“An intellectual feast, learned, lucid, challenging and accessible.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Ideas crackle” in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on “a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals of 20th century thought.” (Los Angeles Times) The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, Thinking the Twentieth Century maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age on to a life of intellectual conflict and engagement. The twentieth century comes to life as an age of ideas—a time when, for good and for ill, the thoughts of the few reigned over the lives of the many. Judt presents the triumphs and the failures of prominent intellectuals, adeptly explaining both their ideas and the risks of their political commitments. Spanning an era with unprecedented clarity and insight, Thinking the Twentieth Century is a tour-de-force, a classic engagement of modern thought by one of the century’s most incisive thinkers. The exceptional nature of this work is evident in its very structure—a series of intimate conversations between Judt and his friend and fellow historian Timothy Snyder, grounded in the texts of the time and focused by the intensity of their vision. Judt's astounding eloquence and range are here on display as never before. Traversing the complexities of modern life with ease, he and Snyder revive both thoughts and thinkers, guiding us through the debates that made our world. As forgotten ideas are revisited and fashionable trends scrutinized, the shape of a century emerges. Judt and Snyder draw us deep into their analysis, making us feel that we too are part of the conversation. We become aware of the obligations of the present to the past, and the force of historical perspective and moral considerations in the critique and reform of society, then and now. In restoring and indeed exemplifying the best of intellectual life in the twentieth century, Thinking the Twentieth Century opens pathways to a moral life for the twenty-first. This is a book about the past, but it is also an argument for the kind of future we should strive for: Thinking the Twentieth Century is about the life of the mind—and the mindful life. Judt's book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Author : Edward Ross Dickinson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520285552

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The World in the Long Twentieth Century by Edward Ross Dickinson Pdf

The biological transformation of modern times -- The foundations of the modern global economy -- Reorganizing the global economy -- Localization and globalization -- The great explosion -- New world (dis)order -- High modernity -- Revolt and refusal -- Transformative modernity -- Democracy and capitalism triumphant

Author : Clive Ponting
Publisher : Sinclair-Stevenson
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023193266

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Progress and Barbarism by Clive Ponting Pdf

How has the world changed in the last century? This text looks back across 100 years of turbulence, Clive Ponting providing a reassessment of what the 20th century has meant to people throughout the world.

Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 006050594X

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A History of the Twentieth Century by Martin Gilbert Pdf

Martin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing technology age, taking us through World War I to the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as president of the United States and Hider as chancellor of Germany. He continues on to document wars in South Africa, China, Ethiopia, Spain, Korea, Vietnam, and Bosnia, as well as apartheid, the arms race, the moon landing, and the beginnings of the computer age, while interspersing the influence of art, literature, music, and religion throughout this vivid work. A rich, textured look at war, celebration, suffering, life, death, and renewal in the century gone by, this volume is nothing less than extraordinary.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118651384

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Twentieth-Century Europe by Anonim Pdf

Twentieth-Century Europe: A Brief History presents readers with a concise and accessible survey of the most significant themes and political events that shaped European history in the 20th and 21st centuries. Features updates that include a new chapter that reviews major political and economic trends since 1989 and an extensively revised chapter that emphasizes the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since World War II Organized into brief chapters that are suitable for traditional courses or for classes in non-traditional courses that allow for additional material selected by the professor Includes the addition of a variety of supplemental materials such as chronological timelines, maps, and illustrations

Author : John Morris Roberts
Publisher : Lane, Allen
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0713992573

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Twentieth Century by John Morris Roberts Pdf

Author : William R. Keylor,Tracey Jane Kinney,Jerry Bannister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : 0195429028

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The Twentieth-century World by William R. Keylor,Tracey Jane Kinney,Jerry Bannister Pdf

Through a distinctive analytical framework that focuses on the relations between countries rather than their individual histories, this second Canadian edition offers an engaging narrative account of twentieth-century world history. Thoroughly updated, this new edition provides expanded coverage of the non-Western world and includes a brand new chapter covering the first decade of the twenty-first century - exploring such recent historical events as Canada's mission in Afghanistan and theCopenhagen Climate Summit. With its impeccable scholarship and even-handed analysis, The Twentieth-Century World, second Canadian edition, is an essential resource for all students of twentieth-century history.