The 1914-2024 War Atlas

Modernity Deciphered Anew
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-54396-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

The 1914–2024 War Atlas deconstructs the contemporary widespread and well-known image of the 20th and 21st centuries, arguing for the continuity of the historical process covering the period 1914–2024.

The years between 1914 and 2024 constitute a period of unparalleled economic growth, scientific advancement, political development, and social change – in just over 100 years, human civilization has moved from an industrial to a digital age. However, they also cover some of the most dangerous, violent, and politically volatile years in human history. In these years, two world wars have been fought; weapons of mass destruction dropped; authoritarian and democratic regimes alike have risen and fallen; and regional conflicts have been almost continuous, effectively conjoining World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the Russo-Ukrainian war. This volume indicates that the 1914 July Crisis set in motion a sequence of events that spanned over 100 years. Containing a range of colourful maps and charts, this book graphically illustrates the arguments presented in both an informative and visual way.

This atlas will serve as a perfect textbook for students studying history, geography, politics, and international relations, as well as being a useful guide to contemporary world politics for researchers and for those interested in international relations and modern history.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Solarz, Marcin Wojciech

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1       The cogs

Chapter 2       Reading maps – framing the space

Chapter 3       The scenes

Chapter 4       Deciphering history – framing the time

Chapter 5       The milestones

Chapter 6       The first cog – European cycle of power and decay vs the new Hundred Years’ War

Chapter 7       The European tides

Chapter 8       Deconstructing the 20th and 21st centuries – the new Hundred Years’ War

Chapter 9       The borders

Chapter 10     The power systems and arrangements

Chapter 11     The international community voices

Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Marcin Wojciech Solarz is a geographer, political scientist, and the IR researcher at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies of the University of Warsaw, Poland; Head of the Department of Political and Historical Geography, FGRS UW; and Head of the project 'Forest Germans (Gluchoniemcy, Walddeutsche): the past and present of forgotten local communities in the Carpathian Foothills,' 2020–2025. His previous works include: The Language of Global Development: A Misleading Geography (2014), The Global North-South Atlas: Mapping Global Change (2020), 'Geography and the world’s development divides' in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Development (2023), and other works; he is also scientific editor and coauthor of the Atlas of Poland’s Political Geography: Poland in the Modern World (2018; third place in the 'Atlases' category at the International Cartographic Exhibition in Japan in 2019), New Geographies of the Globalized World (2018), and the Atlas of Poland’s Political Geography: Poland in the Modern World: 2022 Perspective (2022).