Essays on Twentieth-Century History (Critical Perspectives On The Past)

In the sub-field of world history, there has been a surprising paucity of thinking and writing about how to approach and conceptualize the long twentieth century from the 1870s through the early 2000s. The historiographic essays collected in Essays on Twentieth Century History will go a long way to filling that lacuna. Each contribution covers a key theme and one or more critical sub-fields in twentieth century global history. Chapters address migration patterns, the impact of world wars, transformations in gender and urbanization, as well as environmental transitions. All are written by leading historians in each of the sub-fields represented, and each is intended to provide an introduction to the literature, key themes, and debates that have proliferated around the more recent historical experience of humanity. Essays on Twentieth Century History is an essential collection for scholars and students who wish to understand the recent past. Contributors include: Paul Edwards, Carl J. Guarneri, Gabrielle Hecht, Adam McKeown, John H. Morrow, Jr., Jose C. Moya, Jean H. Quataert, Bonnie Smith, Howard Spodek, Robin Tucker, and the editor. In the discipline of world history, there has been a surprising paucity of thinking and writing about how to approach and conceptualize the long twentieth century from the 1870s through the early 2000s. The historiographic essays collected in Essays on Twentieth-Century History will go a long way to filling that lacuna. Each contribution covers a key theme and one or more critical sub-fields in twentieth-century global history. Chapters address migration patterns, the impact of world wars, transformations in gender and urbanization, environmental transitions, scientific and technological innovations, and the emergence of the United States as a global power. All are written by leading historians in each of the areas represented, and each is intended to provide an introduction to the literature, key themes, and debates that have proliferated around the more recent historical experience of humanity. Essays on Twentieth-Century History is an essential collection for scholars and students who wish to understand the recent past. It completes the trilogy in the Global and Comparative History series that includes Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History and Islamic and European Expansion, also edited by Michael Adas. World Migration In The Long Twentieth Century / Jose C. Moya And Adam Mckeown -- Twentieth-century Urbanization : In Search Of An Urban Paradigm For An Urban World / Howard Spodek -- Women In The Twentieth-century World / Bonnie G. Smith -- The Gendering Of Human Rights In The International Systems Of Law In The Twentieth Century / Jean H. Quataert -- The Impact Of The Two World Wars In A Century Of Violence / John H. Morrow, Jr. -- Locating The United States In Twentieth-century World History / Carl J. Guarneri -- The Technopolitics Of Cold War : Towards A Transregional Perspective / Gabrielle Hecht And Paul N. Edwards -- A Century Of Environmental Transitions / Richard P. Tucker. Edited By Michael Adas For The American Historical Association. Includes Bibliographical References. World migration in the long twentieth century / Jose Moya and Adam McKeown Twentieth century urbanization : in search of an urban paradigm for an urban world / Howard Spodek Women in the twentieth century world / Bonnie G. Smith The gendering of human rights in the international systems of law in the twentieth century / Jean H. Quataert The impact of the two world wars in a century of violence / John H. Morrow, Jr. Locating the United States in twentieth-century world history / Carl J. Guarneri The technopolitics of Cold War : towards a transregional perspective / Gabrielle Hecht and Paul N. Edwards A century of environmental transitions / Richard P. Tucker. Probing the paradoxes of "the long twentieth century"--Unprecedented human opportunity and deprivation to the rise of the United States as a hegemon