A Global History of the Twentieth Century

Legacies and Lessons from Six National Perspectives
Herausgeber: Green, Michael J; Szechenyi, Nicholas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781442279704
• ISBN-10: 1442279702
• Artikelnr.: 47482790

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Green is senior vice president for Asia and Japan Chair at CSIS and chair in modern and contemporary Japanese politics and foreign policy at Georgetown University. Nicholas Szechenyi is a senior fellow and deputy director of the Japan Chair at CSIS.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, John J. Hamre Introduction, Michael J. Green Chapter 1: Lifting
the Burdens of the Past: How Three Mid-Twentieth Century Presidents
Transformed the United States, William Inboden Chapter 2: Japan in the
Global History of the Twentieth Century: A Path to "Proactive Contribution
to Peace," Shinichi Kitaoka and Yuichi Hosoya Chapter 3: The Turkish
Experience of the Twentieth Century, Cemil Aydin Chapter 4: China's
"Prolonged Rise": A Twentieth Century Tale and its Twenty-First Century
Implications, Chen Jian Chapter 5: The Transformation of India in the
Twentieth Century, Srinath Raghavan Chapter 6: Germany's Trajectory in the
Twentieth Century: Global Perspectives, Sebastian Conrad About the Editors
and Contributors Index