A Global History of the Twentieth Century

Legacies and Lessons from Six National Perspectives

Michael J. Green, Nicholas Szechenyi

• Publisher: Center for Strategic & International Studies
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781442279728
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In this volume, a distinguished group of scholars examine the national experiences of six major twentieth-century powers-- the United States, Japan, Turkey, China, India and Germany—to discern the centuries' legacies for today and the lessons for tomorrow. They explore core themes including anticolonialism, democracy, socialism, nationalism, industrialization, nuclear weapons, and globalization and provide their own personal interpretations of the century, as well as their respective nation's experiences and historical memory of the era. Together, they provide a broad historical context of the forces that shaped the twentieth century that will be of interest to scholars and students of history as well as policymakers.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Lifting the Burdens of the Past: How Three Mid-Twentieth-Century Presidents Transformed the United States
• 3. Japan in the Global History of the Twentieth Century: A Path to “Proactive Contribution to Peace”
• 4. The Turkish Experience of the Twentieth Century
• 5. China’s “Prolonged Rise”: A Twentieth-Century Tale and Its Twenty-First-Century Implications
• 6. The Transformation of India in the Twentieth Century
• 7. Germany’s Trajectory in the Twentieth Century: Global Perspectives
• About the Editors and Contributors
• About CSIS