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ISBN: 9780520960961 0520960963 9780520285545 9780520285552 0520285549 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oakland, CA : University of California Press,
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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 that have shaped our world on a truly global scale, analyzing the historical trends, causes, and consequences of the key forces at work. Spanning the 1870s to the present, this book explores the making of the modern world as a connected pattern of global developments. Students will learn to think about the past two centuries as a process, a series of political and economic upheavals, technological advances, and environmental transformations that have shaped the long twentieth century. "The World in the Long Twentieth Century presents an interpretation of the history of the world in the century and a half between the middle of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. It identifies the most important forces shaping the interactions between world societies and regions, and the complex relationships between those forces and the events, ruptures, upheavals, and continuities they drove. The interactions between science and technology, economics, culture, and politics on the scale of world events and developments are analyzed, stressing the continuities and commonalities that made this entire period of some 150 years a coherent whole. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on the broad dynamics of world developments--the global trends and interactions that determined the course of events both locally, in individual societies, and on a global scale, in the patterns of interactions between regions, countries, and societies. The book places the period of revolutions, wars, and genocides in the early twentieth century in the context of the longer-term development of the world economy, world population, imperial politics on a global scale, and world-wide social and cultural changes between ca. 1850 and ca. 2010. That explosive period, it shows, was a product of the rapid economic, cultural, and political globalization of the late nineteenth century; and it laid the groundwork for the even faster globalizations of the late twentieth."--
History, Modern --- World politics --- Globalization --- Civilization --- Social aspects. --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- cold war. --- counterglobalization. --- cultural globalization. --- decolonization. --- economic globalization. --- financialization. --- free trade. --- global economy. --- globalization. --- high modernity. --- historians. --- imperialism. --- long 20th century. --- mass migrations. --- modern history. --- new world disorder. --- new world order. --- political globalization. --- political history. --- political science. --- population explosion. --- religious innovation. --- scientific technical revolution. --- welfare state. --- world developments. --- world history.
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ISBN: 1283163837 9786613163837 1400839963 9781283163835 9781400839964 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,
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With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of prewar Poland. Uprooted examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants. In this pioneering work, Gregor Thum tells the story of how the city's new Polish settlers found themselves in a place that was not only unfamiliar to them but outright repellent given Wroclaw's Prussian-German appearance and the enormous scope of wartime destruction. The immediate consequences were an unstable society, an extremely high crime rate, rapid dilapidation of the building stock, and economic stagnation. This changed only after the city's authorities and a new intellectual elite provided Wroclaw with a Polish founding myth and reshaped the city's appearance to fit the postwar legend that it was an age-old Polish city. Thum also shows how the end of the Cold War and Poland's democratization triggered a public debate about Wroclaw's "amputated memory." Rediscovering the German past, Wroclaw's Poles reinvented their city for the second time since World War II. Uprooted traces the complex historical process by which Wroclaw's new inhabitants revitalized their city and made it their own.
World War, 1939-1945 --- Forced migration --- Social change --- City and town life --- Collective memory --- Influence. --- Deportations from Poland. --- History --- Wrocław (Poland) --- Oder-Neisse Line (Germany and Poland) --- Social conditions --- 1940s. --- Allied powers. --- Allied victory. --- Allies. --- Breslau. --- Central Europe. --- Eastern Europe. --- Europe. --- Gdansk. --- General Conservator. --- German occupation. --- German territories. --- German territory. --- Germans. --- GermanАolish border. --- Gnienzo. --- Jan Zachwatowicz. --- Joanna Konopinka. --- Karol Maleczynski. --- Krakow. --- London Foreign Office. --- Poland. --- Poles. --- Polish leaders. --- Polish names. --- Polish national cult. --- Polish people. --- Polish residents. --- Polish settlers. --- Polish state. --- Polish takeover. --- Polonization. --- Potsdam Conference. --- Poznan. --- Second World War. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet dismantling. --- Szczecin. --- Warsaw. --- Washington State Department. --- Wrocalw. --- Wroclaw. --- age-old Polish. --- archival materials. --- better future. --- communist government. --- cultural life. --- discrimination. --- ethnic Germans. --- ethnic minorities. --- forced migration. --- forced migrations. --- foreignness. --- historians. --- historic preservation. --- historical names. --- homogenous nation. --- integration. --- local history. --- mass migrations. --- modern society. --- national border. --- nonintervention. --- patriotic appeals. --- political map. --- political power. --- population exchange. --- postwar Poland. --- postwar challenges. --- postwar history. --- reconstruction. --- renaming operation. --- self-reassurance. --- settlement boundaries. --- settlers. --- tradition. --- transportation connections. --- war. --- wartime destruction. --- western territories.
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