The 20th Century: A Retrospective

by Choi Chatterjee

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429976520
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/08/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	24 MB
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About the Author

Phyllis Martin, James Riley

Table of Contents

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