A while ago I attended a course titled "Contemporary Themes in History" which was essentially events of the 20th century, however, thought thematically. What I'm looking for is the particular textbook which followed the same structure. and it had hand picked interesting chapters such as on: cultural revolution, feminism, Islamic fundamentalism.
I have been trying to search for it on Google search engine, however, I'm totally incapable of finding anything related to "textbooks" only some results for popular non-academic books!
Any advice/suggestion are appreciated.
A primer text to keep all the facts and figures together would be
Norman Lowe Mastering World History
A more thematic and comprehensive and social theme of the same period would be
Eric J Hobsbawm Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century
John Merriman A history of Modern Europe 3 volumes will contain 20th century
Chris Bayly Birth of the Modern World will also have parts of 20th century.
However, most of these would be deeply Euro Centric.
For Modern African, South Asian and Southeast Asian histories of 20th century, you have to look at regional books.
Hope this helps.
See there is lot of books available regarding 20th century. But it didn't contain the same theme of the conference that you have been attended. May be they could collect the theme by referring so many books
History of algeria sociale , economic and culturelle between 1919-1954.
Your question reminds me of my history graduate school days, long ago. I was thinking of the world history texts written by Peter Stearns, a known historian of the world, and often consulted and used by history graduate students. Stearns goes beyond the 20th century though. But he does cover many different themes as diverse as the basics of world history itself, peace in world history, human rights in world history, the industrial revolution in world history, gender in world history, childhood in world history, time in world history, globalization in world history, gender in world history, why study history? And a compilation of primary source documents:
Like this one below:
World History in Documents: A Comparative Reader, 2nd Edition, edited by Peter N. Stearns
I also looked around online (mainly through google) on 20th century world history, and found some titles and authors that might be helpful:
The World in the Twentieth Century by Jeremy Black
A Short History of the Twentieth Century by John Lukacs
I sure hope these help.
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