The Twentieth Century A World History [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B09L2MYKGX | 2021 | 7 hours and 17 minutes |MP3|M4B | 201 MB
Never before had any century in history known the continually accelerating rate and scope of change experienced in the 20th 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 20th 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.