The Twentieth Century: A Brief History

by GOFF RICHARD

• ISBN13: 9780072348538
• ISBN10: 0072348534
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-17
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Written by a diverse group of scholars who bring their regional expertise together, this unique and comprehensive text uses organization as a key tool to help students appreciate this important period in global history. Its clear prose weaves basic factual information and analysis to create a 'student-friendly' text while still allowing for professors' personal interpretation. An introductory chapter introduces five key topics or themes whose influence on the various developments and events in the twentieth century are chronologically discussed throughout the text. More analysis, less detail and refined prose combine with new and retained features to make the 6th edition of 'The Twentieth Century: A Brief Global History' a best selling text for the 20th Century World course.

Table of Contents

Special Features	x
Preface	xiv
1900: A Preview of the Twentieth Century	1	(9)
PART I THE ERA OF IMPERIALISM
General Trends Before World War I	10	(22)
The Great Powers of Europe	32	(10)
The European Conquest of Africa	42	(13)
The United States and Latin America	55	(13)
Imperialism in Asia and the Pacific	68	(26)
The Origins of World War I	94	(8)
World War I	102	(18)
PART II THE ERA OF REVOLUTION AND WAR
General Trends in the Interwar Years	120	(14)
Russia's Three Revolutions, 1917-1932	134	(15)
Postwar Settlements and Europe in the 1920s	149	(18)
Economic and Social Upheaval in the United States and Latin America	167	(15)
East Asia Between the World Wars	182	(13)
Nationalist Struggles in India and Southeast Asia	195	(9)
Anticolonialism in the Middle East and Africa	204	(14)
Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe During The 1930s	218	(12)
Aggression in the 1930s	230	(13)
World War II	243	(27)
PART III THE ERA OF THE COLD WAR AND THE COLLAPSE OF EMPIRES
General Trends in the Era of the Cold War and the Collapse of Empires	270	(21)
Postwar Settlements, Europe, and the Early Cold War	291	(22)
The United States and Latin America after World War II	313	(16)
Asia in the Aftermath of World War II	329	(25)
African Struggles for Independence	354	(14)
Development and Crisis in the Middle East	368	(13)
The Israeli-Palestinian Arab Conflict	381	(12)
Detente and Europe, 1963-1984	393	(17)
The United States and Latin America in the Late Cold War Era	410	(16)
South and Southeast Asia in the Late Cold War Era	426	(18)
Competing Systems in East Asia in the Late Cold War Era	444	(18)
Africa in the Later Years of the Cold War	462	(14)
Gorbachev, Europe, and the End of the Cold War, 1985-1991	476	(25)
PART IV THE POST-COLD WAR PERIOD
The Post-Cold War World	501	(31)
Postscript to a Changing Century	532	(33)
APPENDICES
A. World Geography	543	(14)
B. Wealthy Nations, Poor Nations, and Military Spending in the 1980s and 1990s	557	(4)
C. Glossary	561	(4)
Index	565