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The Twentieth Century - A World History (Paperback)
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The Twentieth Century - A World History (Paperback)
Series: New Oxford World History
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Never before had any century in history known the continually
accelerating rate and scope of change experienced in the twentieth
century - with its revolutionary discoveries, technological
inventions, political upheaval, and scientific advances, radical
transformation touched virtually every arena of life. In The
Twentieth Century: A World History, R. Keith Schoppa uses a global
lens spanning Africa, the Middle East, Russia, Asia and the
Pacific, Europe, and the Americas. He traces the major developments
of the twentieth century from the rise of globalization to the dawn
of the digital age; from the Great War of 1914-18 to the "great war
in Africa," conflicts that span the first genocide of the century
in Namibia to that of Bosnia-Kosovo in the late 1990s. It was the
"century of the refugee," as the explosion of human violence caused
significant population displacement-and it was also the century of
indigenous peoples fighting off the lingering impacts of
imperialism. This volume surveys various U.S. struggles in battles
for civil rights, and witnesses the 1992 collapse of Soviet
communism. The century ended in a spasm of violence: four African
and European national genocides and the African war, one of the ten
deadliest in history, involving nine nations, leaving 6 million
dead and 5.4 million refugees. From the collapse of empires to the
rise of decolonized nation-states on the global stage, The
Twentieth Century: A World History offers a rich chronological
narrative of our recent past and provides a valuable historical
standpoint from which to view our twenty-first century world.
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