The World in the Long Twentieth Century: An Interpretive History

by Edward Ross Dickinson

Book Overview

What can be called the long twentieth century represents the most miraculous and creative era in human history. It was also the most destructive. Over the past 150 years, modern societies across the globe have passed through an extraordinary and completely unprecedented transformation rooted in the technological developments of the nineteenth century. The World in the Long Twentieth Century lays out a framework for understanding the fundamental factors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520285557
• ISBN13: 9780520285552
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.1"