Turbulent Passage
A Global History of the Twentieth Century
2nd Edition
Published on 9. December 2002
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Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-321-09769-9 (ISBN)
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With a strong emphasis on social and cultural history, this book focuses on the major international themes and historical processes that shaped the 20th century.
Turbulent Passage is a truly global text that looks at the historical antecedents of current issues, and challenges students to make connections and draw parallels between historical and contemporary events and trends. The text's narrative encourages students to think analytically and presents important overall arguments for students to grapple with, as opposed to simply stating the facts of history.
Turbulent Passage is a truly global text that looks at the historical antecedents of current issues, and challenges students to make connections and draw parallels between historical and contemporary events and trends. The text's narrative encourages students to think analytically and presents important overall arguments for students to grapple with, as opposed to simply stating the facts of history.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 253 mm
Width: 200 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
689 gr
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978-0-321-09769-9 (9780321097699)
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Content
(Note: each Chapter ends with a Conclusion, Further Readings and On the Web.)
Preface.
Prologue.
I. THE BIRTH OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
1. Western Foundations.
Section 1: The Industrial Revolution in Europe.
The Disruptions of Industrial Life.
Revolutionary Politics.
Section 2: The Consolidation of the Industrial Order, 1850-1914.
Adjustments to Industrial Life.
Political Trends.
The Social Question and New Government Functions.
Popular Culture and High Culture.
Science and Art.
Section 3: Industrialization and the Rise of the United States to Global Power.
The First Non-European Industrial Revolution.
Industrialization and the Transformation of U.S. Society.
Regional Conflict and U.S. Territorial Expansion.
Section 4: Diplomatic Tensions Among the Western Powers.
Document: Women in the Industrial Revolution.
Analysis: The United States in World History.
2. Industrialization in Russia/Japan.
Section 1: Reforms in Russia, 1861-1914.
Section 2: Protest and Revolution.
The Revolution of 1905.
Section 3: Japan: Reform, Industrialization, and Rise to Global Power.
Political Change.
Japan's Industrial Revolution.
Social and Economic Effects of Industrialization.
Document: Russian Conservatism and the West.
Analysis: The Separate Paths of Japan and China.
3. Industrialism and Imperialism.
Section 1: Industrial Rivalries and the Partition of the World, c. 1870-1914.
Motives Behind the Global Scramble for Colonies.
Unequal Combat: Colonial Wars and the Apex of Imperialism.
Patterns of Dominance: Continuity and Change.
Section 2: Colonial Rule in the Tropical Dependencies.
Changing Social Relations Between Colonizer and Colonized.
Shifts in Methods of Economic Extraction.
Section 3: White Dominions and Contested Settler Colonies.
Laying the Foundations for Nationhood in the White Dominions.
Boer Versus British in South Africa.
Pacific Tragedies.
Document: Contrary Images: The Colonizer vs. the Colonized on the "Civilizing Mission".
Analysis: Western Education and the Rise of an African and Asian Middle Class.
4. Precarious Sovereignty: Informal Empire.
Section 1: National Consolidation in Latin America.
Section 2: Ottomans and the Arab ME.
Section 3: Crisis of Qing China.
Document: Building a New China.
Analysis: Explaining Development.
II. THE THIRTY YEAR CRISIS.
5. Descent into the Abyss: World War One and the Crisis of the European Global Order.
Section 1: The Coming of the Great War.
Section 2: A World at War.
Section 3: Failed Peace.
Section 4: World War I and the Nationalist Assault on the European Colonial Order.
Document: Lessons for the Colonized.
Analysis: Women in the Nationalist Movements.
6. The Postwar World: Persisting Challenges to European Dominance.
Section 1. Disarray of Western Europe.
The Roaring Twenties.
Western Culture.
Rise of Fascism in Italy.
New Nations of East-Central Europe.
Section 2. The Rise of New Global Power Centers.
Outside of Europe.
The American Colossus.
The Commonwealth.
Postwar Japan.
Section 3. Revolution: The First Waves.
Mexico in Upheaval.
The Revolutions in Russia.
Towards Revolution in China.
Document: Socialist Realism.
Analysis: A Century of Revolutions.
7. Depression and the Challenge of Totalitarianism.
Section 1: The Global Great Depression.
Section 2: Impact on the West.
Section 3: The Rise of Hitler and the Nazi Reich.
Section 4: The Spanish Civil War.
Section 5: 1930s in Latin America.
Section 6: The Militarization of Japan.
Section 7: The Stalinist Terror State in the Soviet Union.
Document: Stalin Evaluates the Depression.
Analysis: The Decline of the West?
8. A Second Global Conflict and the End of the European Global Order.
Section 1: Causes Old and New of a Second Global War.
Section 2: The Rise and Fall of the Nazi Empire.
From Persecution to Genocide: Hitler's War Against the Jews.
Section 3: War's End and the Emergence of the Superpower Standoff.
Section 4: Global Conflict and the Fall of the Empires.
Winning Independence in South and Southeast Asia.
The Liberation of Non-Settled Africa.
The Repression and Guerilla War: The Struggle for South Africa.
Conflicting Nationalisms: Arabs, Israelis, and the Palestinian Question.
III. AFTER THE DELUGE: WORLD HISTORY IN THE COLD WAR ERA.
9. The West during the Cold War.
Section 1: After World War II: International Setting for the West.
Europe and Its Colonies.
The Cold War.
Section 2: The Resurgence of Western Europe.
The Spread of Liberal Democracy.
The Welfare State.
Political Stability and the Question Marks.
The Diplomatic Context.
Economic Expansion.
The Sources of Western Vitality.
Section 3: Cold War Allies: The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
The Former Dominions.
The "U.S. Century"?
Domestic Dislocations.
Section 4: Culture and Society in the West.
Social Structure.
The Women's Revolution.
Other Social Distinctions in the West.
Western Culture.
A Lively Popular Culture.
Document: Youth Culture in the 1960s.
Analysis: The United States and Western Europe: Convergence and Complexity.
10. The Eastern Block Through the Collapse of the Soviet Union.
Section 1: Themes in Eastern European History Since 1945.
The Soviet Union as Superpower.
The New Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe.
Evolution of Domestic Policies.
Section 2: Soviet Culture: Promoting New Beliefs and Institutions.
Economy and Society.
De-Stalinization.
Section 3: The Explosion of the 1980s and 1990s.
The Age of Reform.
Dismantling the Soviet Empire.
Renewed Turmoil in 1991-1992.
Document: Kruschev's 1956 Special Report to the Communist Party.
Analysis: The Nature of Totalitarianism.
11. Japan and the Pacific Rim.
Section 1: The Aftermath of War in Eastern Asia.
New Divisions and the End of Empires.
Japanese Recovery.
Korea: Intervention and War.
Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Section 2: Japan, Incorporated.
The Distinctive Political Style.
The Economic Surge.
Section 3: The Pacific Rim: New Japans?
The Korean Miracle.
Advances in Taiwan and the City-States.
Section 4: Common Themes in the Pacific Rim.
The Regional Impact of the Pacific Rim.
Document: Wariness of the West and Defense of Japanese Traditions.
Analysis: The Pacific Rim as U.S. Policy Issue.
12. Post-Colonial Africa and Asia.
Section 1: The Challenges of Independence.
Building Nations and National Identities.
The Population Bomb.
Parasitic Cities and Endangered Ecosystems.
"Neocolonialism," Cold War Rivalries, and Underdevelopment.
Section 2: Paths to Development.
Charismatic Populists and One-Party Rule.
Military Responses: Dictatorships and Revolutions.
The Indian Alternative: Development for Some of the People.
Iran: Religious Revivalism and the Rejection of the West.
South Africa: Defending and Challenging the Garrison State.
Document: Cultural Creativity in the Third World: Some Literary Samples.
Analysis: Women and the Struggle to Build New Societies in the Third World.
13. Cold War Confrontations and the Resurgence of Revolutions.
Section 1: Maoist China and After.
Section 2: The Vietnam Wars for National Liberation.
Section 3: Revolutions and Superpower Interventions in Latin America.
Document: The People Speak.
Analysis: Human Rights in the 20th Century.
IV. AFTER THE FALL: TOWARDS A NEW MILLENIUM.
14. The End of the Cold War.
15. Globalization and Its Enemies: The Challenges of Fashioning a 21st Century Global Order.
Section 1: The Resurgence of Globalization.
Section 2: A World of Ethnic and Religious Conflict.
Section 3: America Ascendant: From the Second Gulf War to Afghanistan.
Section 4: Global Warming and a Planet in Peril.
Document: Protest Against Globalization.
Analysis: Terrorism, Then and Now.
Preface.
Prologue.
I. THE BIRTH OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
1. Western Foundations.
Section 1: The Industrial Revolution in Europe.
The Disruptions of Industrial Life.
Revolutionary Politics.
Section 2: The Consolidation of the Industrial Order, 1850-1914.
Adjustments to Industrial Life.
Political Trends.
The Social Question and New Government Functions.
Popular Culture and High Culture.
Science and Art.
Section 3: Industrialization and the Rise of the United States to Global Power.
The First Non-European Industrial Revolution.
Industrialization and the Transformation of U.S. Society.
Regional Conflict and U.S. Territorial Expansion.
Section 4: Diplomatic Tensions Among the Western Powers.
Document: Women in the Industrial Revolution.
Analysis: The United States in World History.
2. Industrialization in Russia/Japan.
Section 1: Reforms in Russia, 1861-1914.
Section 2: Protest and Revolution.
The Revolution of 1905.
Section 3: Japan: Reform, Industrialization, and Rise to Global Power.
Political Change.
Japan's Industrial Revolution.
Social and Economic Effects of Industrialization.
Document: Russian Conservatism and the West.
Analysis: The Separate Paths of Japan and China.
3. Industrialism and Imperialism.
Section 1: Industrial Rivalries and the Partition of the World, c. 1870-1914.
Motives Behind the Global Scramble for Colonies.
Unequal Combat: Colonial Wars and the Apex of Imperialism.
Patterns of Dominance: Continuity and Change.
Section 2: Colonial Rule in the Tropical Dependencies.
Changing Social Relations Between Colonizer and Colonized.
Shifts in Methods of Economic Extraction.
Section 3: White Dominions and Contested Settler Colonies.
Laying the Foundations for Nationhood in the White Dominions.
Boer Versus British in South Africa.
Pacific Tragedies.
Document: Contrary Images: The Colonizer vs. the Colonized on the "Civilizing Mission".
Analysis: Western Education and the Rise of an African and Asian Middle Class.
4. Precarious Sovereignty: Informal Empire.
Section 1: National Consolidation in Latin America.
Section 2: Ottomans and the Arab ME.
Section 3: Crisis of Qing China.
Document: Building a New China.
Analysis: Explaining Development.
II. THE THIRTY YEAR CRISIS.
5. Descent into the Abyss: World War One and the Crisis of the European Global Order.
Section 1: The Coming of the Great War.
Section 2: A World at War.
Section 3: Failed Peace.
Section 4: World War I and the Nationalist Assault on the European Colonial Order.
Document: Lessons for the Colonized.
Analysis: Women in the Nationalist Movements.
6. The Postwar World: Persisting Challenges to European Dominance.
Section 1. Disarray of Western Europe.
The Roaring Twenties.
Western Culture.
Rise of Fascism in Italy.
New Nations of East-Central Europe.
Section 2. The Rise of New Global Power Centers.
Outside of Europe.
The American Colossus.
The Commonwealth.
Postwar Japan.
Section 3. Revolution: The First Waves.
Mexico in Upheaval.
The Revolutions in Russia.
Towards Revolution in China.
Document: Socialist Realism.
Analysis: A Century of Revolutions.
7. Depression and the Challenge of Totalitarianism.
Section 1: The Global Great Depression.
Section 2: Impact on the West.
Section 3: The Rise of Hitler and the Nazi Reich.
Section 4: The Spanish Civil War.
Section 5: 1930s in Latin America.
Section 6: The Militarization of Japan.
Section 7: The Stalinist Terror State in the Soviet Union.
Document: Stalin Evaluates the Depression.
Analysis: The Decline of the West?
8. A Second Global Conflict and the End of the European Global Order.
Section 1: Causes Old and New of a Second Global War.
Section 2: The Rise and Fall of the Nazi Empire.
From Persecution to Genocide: Hitler's War Against the Jews.
Section 3: War's End and the Emergence of the Superpower Standoff.
Section 4: Global Conflict and the Fall of the Empires.
Winning Independence in South and Southeast Asia.
The Liberation of Non-Settled Africa.
The Repression and Guerilla War: The Struggle for South Africa.
Conflicting Nationalisms: Arabs, Israelis, and the Palestinian Question.
III. AFTER THE DELUGE: WORLD HISTORY IN THE COLD WAR ERA.
9. The West during the Cold War.
Section 1: After World War II: International Setting for the West.
Europe and Its Colonies.
The Cold War.
Section 2: The Resurgence of Western Europe.
The Spread of Liberal Democracy.
The Welfare State.
Political Stability and the Question Marks.
The Diplomatic Context.
Economic Expansion.
The Sources of Western Vitality.
Section 3: Cold War Allies: The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
The Former Dominions.
The "U.S. Century"?
Domestic Dislocations.
Section 4: Culture and Society in the West.
Social Structure.
The Women's Revolution.
Other Social Distinctions in the West.
Western Culture.
A Lively Popular Culture.
Document: Youth Culture in the 1960s.
Analysis: The United States and Western Europe: Convergence and Complexity.
10. The Eastern Block Through the Collapse of the Soviet Union.
Section 1: Themes in Eastern European History Since 1945.
The Soviet Union as Superpower.
The New Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe.
Evolution of Domestic Policies.
Section 2: Soviet Culture: Promoting New Beliefs and Institutions.
Economy and Society.
De-Stalinization.
Section 3: The Explosion of the 1980s and 1990s.
The Age of Reform.
Dismantling the Soviet Empire.
Renewed Turmoil in 1991-1992.
Document: Kruschev's 1956 Special Report to the Communist Party.
Analysis: The Nature of Totalitarianism.
11. Japan and the Pacific Rim.
Section 1: The Aftermath of War in Eastern Asia.
New Divisions and the End of Empires.
Japanese Recovery.
Korea: Intervention and War.
Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Section 2: Japan, Incorporated.
The Distinctive Political Style.
The Economic Surge.
Section 3: The Pacific Rim: New Japans?
The Korean Miracle.
Advances in Taiwan and the City-States.
Section 4: Common Themes in the Pacific Rim.
The Regional Impact of the Pacific Rim.
Document: Wariness of the West and Defense of Japanese Traditions.
Analysis: The Pacific Rim as U.S. Policy Issue.
12. Post-Colonial Africa and Asia.
Section 1: The Challenges of Independence.
Building Nations and National Identities.
The Population Bomb.
Parasitic Cities and Endangered Ecosystems.
"Neocolonialism," Cold War Rivalries, and Underdevelopment.
Section 2: Paths to Development.
Charismatic Populists and One-Party Rule.
Military Responses: Dictatorships and Revolutions.
The Indian Alternative: Development for Some of the People.
Iran: Religious Revivalism and the Rejection of the West.
South Africa: Defending and Challenging the Garrison State.
Document: Cultural Creativity in the Third World: Some Literary Samples.
Analysis: Women and the Struggle to Build New Societies in the Third World.
13. Cold War Confrontations and the Resurgence of Revolutions.
Section 1: Maoist China and After.
Section 2: The Vietnam Wars for National Liberation.
Section 3: Revolutions and Superpower Interventions in Latin America.
Document: The People Speak.
Analysis: Human Rights in the 20th Century.
IV. AFTER THE FALL: TOWARDS A NEW MILLENIUM.
14. The End of the Cold War.
15. Globalization and Its Enemies: The Challenges of Fashioning a 21st Century Global Order.
Section 1: The Resurgence of Globalization.
Section 2: A World of Ethnic and Religious Conflict.
Section 3: America Ascendant: From the Second Gulf War to Afghanistan.
Section 4: Global Warming and a Planet in Peril.
Document: Protest Against Globalization.
Analysis: Terrorism, Then and Now.