Remaking the modern world 1900-2015 : global connections and comparisons
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Remaking the modern world 1900-2015 : global connections and comparisons
(The Blackwell history of the world)
Wiley Blackwell, 2018
- : pbk
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Sequel and companon vol. to: Birth of the modern world 1780-1914
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study explores global history since the First World War, offering a coherent, comparative overview of developments in politics, economics, and society at large.
Written by one of the leading historians of his generation, an early intellectual leader in the study of World History
Weaves a clear narrative history that explores the themes of politics, economics, social, cultural, and intellectual life throughout the long twentieth century
Identifies the themes of state, capital, and communication as key drivers of change on a global scale in the last century, and explores the impact of those ideas
Interrogates whether warfare was really the pre-eminent driving force of twentieth-century history, and what other ideas shaped the course of history in this period
Explores the causes behind the resurgence of local conflict, rather than global-scale conflict, in the years since the turn of the millennium
Delves into the narrative of inequality, a story that has shaped and been shaped by the events of the last hundred years
Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series
The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Photo Credits vii
Series Editor's Preface ix
Christopher Bayly and the Making of World History xiii
Preface xix
Introduction 1
1 The World Crisis, c.1900-1930: Europe and the "Middle East" 12
2 The World Crisis, c.1900-1930: Africa, Asia and Beyond 29
3 Authoritarianism and Dictatorship Worldwide, c.1900-1950 49
4 Democracies and Their Discontents, c.1900-1950 67
5 The Depression: State Intervention and Popular Resistance 84
6 The Second World War and its Consequences 96
7 Peripheral Conflicts and the End of Old Regimes, c.1945-1955 118
8 America's Hegemony and Colonialism's Finale, mid-1950s to 1970s 139
9 The "Tipping Point": World Politics and the Shock of the "Long 1980s" 162
10 The Expansion of Human Knowledge: The Twentieth-Century Person and Society 179
11 The Self and Human Society 194
12 Arts, Literature and Entertainment: Crisis and Recovery 215
13 Religion: Contestation and Revival 231
14 A Century of Killing and a Century of Crime 247
15 Internationalism and Transnationalism in Theory and Practice 263
16 The Shadow of Empire in the Modern World 270
17 The Pressure of People 287
18 Between Two Centuries: Economic Liberalisation and Political Fragmentation, c.1991 to 2015 298
Conclusion: Periods and Prophecy 323
Notes 333
Bibliography 363
Index 379
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