The Twentieth Century: A Brief History - Brossura

Goff, Richard; Moss, Walter; Terry, Janice; Upshur, Jiu-Hwa

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ISBN 10: 0072348534 ISBN 13: 9780072348538

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2001

Riassunto

Written by a diverse group of scholars who bring their regional expertise together, this unique and comprehensive text uses organization as a key tool to help students appreciate this important period in global history. Its clear prose weaves basic factual information and analysis to create a ‘student-friendly' text while still allowing for professors' personal interpretation. An introductory chapter introduces five key topics or themes whose influence on the various developments and events in the twentieth century are chronologically discussed throughout the text. More analysis, less detail and refined prose combine with new and retained features to make the 6th edition of 'The Twentieth Century: A Brief Global History' a best selling text for the 20th Century World course.

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L'autore:

Richard Goff is Professor Emeritus of History at Eastern Michigan University. He received his A.B. from Duke University and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Cornell and a James B. Duke Fellow at Duke, where he received his Ph.D. He taught twentieth-century world history for more than a quarter of a century beginning in 1975. He is the author of Confederate Supply and of articles in the Encyclopedia of Southern History and the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. He is the editor and co-author of two other college textbooks, A Survey of Western Civilization and World History.

Contenuti:

PART I: THE ERA OF IMPERIALISM

1. 1900: A Preview of the Twentieth Century

2. General Trends before World War I

3. The Great Powers of Europe

4. The European Conquest of Africa

5. The United States and Latin America

6. Imperialism in Asia and the Pacific

7. The Origins of World War I

8. World War I

PART II: THE ERA OF REVOLUTION AND WAR

9. General Trends in the Interwar Years

10. Russia¨ˆs Three Revolutions, 1917-1932

11. Postwar Settlements and Europe in the 1920s

12. Economic and Social Upheaval in the United States and Latin America

13. East Asia between the World Wars

14. Nationalist Struggles in India and Southeast Asia

15. Anticolonialism in the Middle East and Africa

16. Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe during the 1930s

17. Aggression in the 1930s

18. World War II

PART III: THE ERA OF THE COLD WAR AND THE COLLAPSE OF EMPIRES

19. General Trends in the Era of the Cold War and the Collapse of Empires

20. Postwar Settlements, Europe, and the Early Cold War

21. The United States and Latin America after World War II

22. Asia in the Aftermath of World War II

23. African Struggles for Independence

24. Development and Crisis in the Middle East

25. The Israeli-Palestinian-Arab Conflict

26. Detente and Europe, 1963-1984

27. The United States and Latin America in the Late Cold War Era

28. South and Southeast Asia in the Late Cold War Era

29. Competing Systems in East Asia in the Late Cold War Era

30. Africa in the Later Years of the Cold War

31. Gorbachev, Europe, and the End of the Cold War, 1985-1991

PART IV: THE POST-COLD WAR PERIOD

32. The Post-Cold War World

33. Postscript to a Changing Century

APPENDIXES

A. World Geography

B. Wealthy Nations, Poor Nations, and Military Spending in the 1980s and 1990s

C. Glossary

INDEX

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0072348534
• ISBN 13: 9780072348538
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 6
• Numero di pagine: 589