{"product_id":"world-in-the-long-twentieth-century-an-interpretive-history-9780520285552","title":"World in the Long Twentieth Century An","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat can be called the long twentieth century represents the most miraculous and creative era in human history. It was also the most destructive. Over the past 150 years, modern societies across the globe have passed through an extraordinary and completely unprecedented transformation rooted in the technological developments of the nineteenth 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 the present, this book explores the making of the modern world as a connected pattern of global developments. Students will learn to think about the past two centuries as a process, a series of political and economic upheavals, technological advances, and environmental transformations that have shaped the long twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Edward Dickinson has written a very important and original survey of modern world history, one that deserves to be widely read and discussed. For specialists in the history of the twentieth century, this is an indispensable text.\" * Journal of Modern History *\u003cbr\u003e\"A tremendous achievement, a grand synthesis at its best. . . . its range, its ability to connect sweeping trends to local or national details, and its ability to move from economic to cultural, political to ecological themes, is deeply impressive.\" * New Global Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Biological Transformation of Modern Times\u003cbr\u003e Population Explosion, 1800–2000\u003cbr\u003e Expansion into Challenging Biomes, 1800–2000\u003cbr\u003e A Century of Mass Migrations, 1840–1940\u003cbr\u003e 2. Foundations of the Modern Global Economy\u003cbr\u003e The Global Development Project, 1850–1930\u003cbr\u003e Scientifi c-Technical Revolution, 1850–1900\u003cbr\u003e Technological Change, Effi ciency, and Growth, 1850–1930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Reorganizing the Global Economy\u003cbr\u003e Global Commodity Extraction, 1870–1914\u003cbr\u003e Free Trade and Emancipation, 1840–1890\u003cbr\u003e “Free” Trade and Imperialism, 1840–1920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Localization and Globalization\u003cbr\u003e Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, 1830–1940\u003cbr\u003e Cultural Globalization: Religious Innovation, 1800–1920\u003cbr\u003e Cultural Globalization: Peace and Dance, 1890–1930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Great Explosion\u003cbr\u003e The Global Revolutionary Moment, 1890–1923\u003cbr\u003e War for World Domination: Phase I, 1914–1923\u003cbr\u003e The Problem of the Peasant in the 1920s and 1930s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. New World (Dis)Order\u003cbr\u003e War for World Domination: Phase II, 1935–1950\u003cbr\u003e Decolonization and Cold War, 1945–1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. High Modernity\u003cbr\u003e The Great Acceleration, 1950–1975\u003cbr\u003e The Welfare State, 1950–1975\u003cbr\u003e Development, 1950–1980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Revolt and Refusal\u003cbr\u003e Counterglobalization, 1960–1980\u003cbr\u003e The Great Deceleration? 1975–1990\u003cbr\u003e The Ecological Moment, 1960–1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Transformative Modernity\u003cbr\u003e Real Development, 1975–2000\u003cbr\u003e The New Right, 1968–2000\u003cbr\u003e The Gender Revolution, 1950–2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Democracy and Capitalism Triumphant?\u003cbr\u003e The Global Triumph of Democracy after 1980\u003cbr\u003e “Financialization”\u003cbr\u003e The End of the World?\u003cbr\u003e The End of the “Natural” World\u003cbr\u003e The End of the Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Select Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Illustration Credits\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402876395863,"sku":"9780520285552","price":28.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520285552.jpg?v=1730481750","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/world-in-the-long-twentieth-century-an-interpretive-history-9780520285552","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}