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Global Society The World Since 1900

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ISBN-10: 0618018506

ISBN-13: 9780618018505

Edition: 2004

Authors: Pamela Kyle Crossley, Lynn Hollen Lees, John W. Servos

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Description:

This narrative text takes a global approach to the 20th century, examining all regions in a balanced fashion without over-emphasizing western Europe or the United States. The text's focus on environmental and technological innovations ensures that attention is given to all regions. Comparative chapters allow students to see interaction among various regions of the world.
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Book details

List price: $119.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: CENGAGE Learning
Publication date: 6/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Note: Each chapter contains a Conclusion
Old and New Empires, 19001919
The World in 1900
Nation States and Their Resources
Technology and Power
Colonialism and the British Empire
Struggles for Recognition
Imperialism Encompasses the Pacific, 19001914
Twilight of the Land-Based Empires
Traditional Wealth and Modern Trade
Pacific Imperialists
Abandonment of the Land-Based Empires
Great War, Little Peace, 19141919
The Origins of the War Military History of the Conflict, 19141917
Home Fronts Stalemates Broken, 19171918
Finding a New Equilibrium
Struggles for Supremacy, 19191945
Internationalism, Empire, and Autarchy, 19191929
Internationalism Old Empires and New Nationalisms
Raj and Swaraj: The Struggle for Indian Independence
The Quiescent Colonies Dependency and Development
Knowing and Doing: Science and Technology, 19191939
The Convergence of Science and Technology
High Science in a Mass Culture
Science, Technology, and Economic Development
The Economic Consequences of War and Peace, 19191938
Markets and Money Depression
Around the Globe National Solutions
Domestic Life in Hard Times
The Murderous Politics of the 1930s
Alternative Designs for the Future
Several Forms of Authoritarianism
The Media Send Strong Messages
Citizenship, Gender, and Ethnicity Welfare
Programs: A Response to Domestic Problems
From Regional Wars to Global Conflict, 19361946
The War of the Northern Hemisphere War Years
Outside the Battlefields Endgame
Rise and Fall of the Bipolar Order, 19461981
From the United Nations to a Bi-Polar World, 19451953
The World in Motion
Memories of Versailles and Planning a Postwar World
From Allies to Adversaries Asia in the Aftermath of World War II
Occupations and Nationalisms Asian Communism
The Globalization of the Cold War
Two Poles and Perpetual Crisis, 19501964
Crisis and Compromise in the Management of the Post-War World
The Road to Confrontation Resource
Anxieties and the Challenge of Secular Nationalism: The Middle East and North Africa
Border Crossings, 19461975
A New Order of Things
People on the Move International Styles
Earthly Concerns and Alternative Faiths
The Many Dialects of Rebellion, 19601975
Personalizing Resistance and Independence
National Independence in the Weakening Bipolar System
New Forms of International
Awareness Flexing of the American Pole
Deacute;tente to Disarray: The Breakdown of the Bipolar World, 19691981
The 1970s: An Overview Regional
Rivalries and the Decay of Deacute;tente
The Yom Kippur War, 1973
Oil Embargo and Economic Change
The Hollowing Out of the Soviet Empire
The Turn to the Right
Emergence of New Global Systems from 1981
Reconfigurations of Power, 19811991
The Collapse of Communism
Problems of One-Party Rule Economic
Restructuring Identities and the Nation-State
Global Society in the New Millennium
Closing the Circle Revitalization of the Nation-State
The Organizing of Global Finance and Trade
Management of Energy and the Environment Class
Stratification in the Global Society