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Book SynopsisProbing the paradoxes of the long twentieth century--from unprecedented human opportunity and deprivation to the rise of the United States as a hegemon
Trade Review"This collection of essays is part of a larger attempt to overturn the problematic periodization of the twentieth century that - at least in the schema of the global narrative - tends to serve as a coda to the nineteenth century... Essays on Twentieth-Century History has considerable value in teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. In both instances, the collection challenges readers to reconsider - or perhaps consider - the significance of the twentieth century in the still-developing narrative of global history. The various essays are accessible, provocative, and with many essays offering essential bibliographies, they represent a starting point for historians and historians in training." The Journal of World History, June 2012
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Michael Adas 1. World Migration in the Long Twentieth Century - Jose C. Moya and Adam McKeown 2. Twentieth- Century Urbanization: In Search of an Urban Paradigm for an Urban World - Howard Spodek 3. Women in the Twentieth- Century World - Bonnie G. Smith 4. The Gendering of Human Rights in the International Systems of Law in the Twentieth Century - Jean H. Quataert 5. The Impact of the Two World Wars in a Century of Violence - John H. Morrow Jr. 6. Locating the United States in Twentieth- Century World History - Carl J. Guarneri 7. The Technopolitics of Cold War: Toward a Transregional Perspective - Gabrielle Hecht and Paul N. Edwards 8. A Century of Environmental Transitions - Richard P. Tucker About the Contributors
