Lang Twentieth Century History For Dummies

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-119-99793-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 458 Seiten, E-Book

The 20th Century brought revolutionary changes to ourworld and our lives: the human population of the world tripled,space travel became reality, two world wars and a host of otherconflicts were fought, and huge advances in science, technology andcommunication resulted in the globalised world we know today.
Enormous steps were made in wiping out widespreaddiscrimination, from the women's suffrage movement leading towomen's right to vote in western countries, to the civilrights movement in the US challenging racial segregation. Thepolitical landscape has provided lots of excitement, withcharismatic and scandalous presidents in the White House, the firstfemale prime minister in the UK, dictators working to variousmanifestoes across the world, the Middle East conflict and thechanging balance of political and economic"superpowers".
Technological advances have resulted in nigh on universaladoption and dependence on automobiles, computers, mobiles andother wireless technology. The exponential rate at which technologyis evolving is one of the variables that make the twentieth centuryso fascinating.
All this and much, much more happened in a mere one hundredyears - where did we find the time to do so much?!Twentieth Century History For Dummies tells all...

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lang, Seán

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.
Part I: The Great War Years: 1900-19.
Chapter 1: Overview of a Century.
Chapter 2: Fin de Siècle - Wrapping Up the NineteenthCentury.
Chapter 3: The Great War: 1914-18.
Part II: The Years of the Great Dictators:1919-45.
Chapter 4: The Red Flag - Communism.
Chapter 5: Men in Black (Shirts): The Right-Wing Dictators.
Chapter 6: The Twenties: The Decade that Roared.
Chapter 7: I'm the King of the World! Europe'sEmpires.
Chapter 8: Depression and Aggression.
Chapter 9: The War of the World.
Part III: The Divided World: 1945-89.
Chapter 10: You're Cold as Ice! The Cold War.
Chapter 11: Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me: The End ofEmpires.
Chapter 12: Africa's Wind of Change.
Chapter 13: Going Bananas: Latin America.
Chapter 14: Asian Tigers.
Chapter 15: Disneyland: Post-War America.
Chapter 16: Red on Red: Russia and China.
Part IV: To the Millennium.
Chapter 17: Muddle in the Middle East.
Chapter 18: Europe Rides Again.
Chapter 19: New Order: Wrapping up the Twentieth Century.
Chapter 20: And the Living Is Easy - For Some.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 21: Ten Iconic Images.
Chapter 22: Ten Triumphs of Technology.
Chapter 23: Ten Films That Made an Impact.
Chapter 24: Ten International Bodies that Made a Difference.
Chapter 25: Ten BAD Ideas.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Sean Lang studied history at Oxford and is the author of the best-selling British History For Dummies and European History For Dummies. He is coeditor of Twentieth Century History Review, and regularly appears on radio and television talking about history.