The Twentieth Century av R. Keith (Professor Emeritus of History Professor Emeritus of History Loyola University Maryland) Schoppa

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Never before had any century in history known the continually accelerating rate and scope of change experienced in the twentieth century -- with its revolutionary discoveries, technological inventions, political upheaval, and scientific advances, radical transformation touched virtually every arena of life. In The Twentieth Century: A World History, R. Keith Schoppa uses a global lens spanning Africa, the Middle East, Russia, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Americas. He traces the major developments of the twentieth century from the rise of globalization to the dawn of the digital age; from the Great War of 1914-18 to the <"great war in Africa,>" conflicts that span the first genocide of the century in Namibia to that of Bosnia-Kosovo in the late 1990s. It was the <"century of the refugee,>" as the explosion of human violence caused significant population displacement-and it was also the century of indigenous peoples fighting off the lingering impacts of imperialism. This volume