THE WORLD IN THE LONG TWENTIETH CENTURY

The World in the Long Twentieth Century lays out a framework for understanding the fundamental factors that have shaped our world on a truly global scale, analyzing the historical trends, causes, and consequences of the key forces at work. Spanning the 1870s to th e present, this book explores the making of the modern world as a connected pattern of global developments. Students will learn to t hink about the past two centuries as a process, a series of political and economic upheavals, technological advances, and environmen tal tran...[Read more]