The Twentieth Century: A Brief History
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Book Description
Written by a diverse group of scholars who bring their regional expertise together, this unique and comprehensive text uses organization as a key tool to help students appreciate this important period in global history. Its clear prose weaves basic factual information and analysis to create a ‘student-friendly' text while still allowing for professors' personal interpretation. An introductory chapter introduces five key topics or themes whose influence on the various developments and events in the twentieth century are chronologically discussed throughout the text. More analysis, less detail and refined prose combine with new and retained features to make the 6th edition of 'The Twentieth Century: A Brief Global History' a best selling text for the 20th Century World course.
About the Author
Richard Goff is Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University. He received his A.B. from Duke University and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Cornell and a James B. Duke Fellow at Duke, where he received his Ph.D. He has taught twentieth-century world history since 1975. He is the author of Confederate Supply and of articles in the Encyclopedia of Southern History and the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. He is the editor and co-author of two other college textbooks, A Survey of Western Civilization and World History. Walter Moss is Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University, where he has taught history since 1970. He attended Xavier University in Cincinnati and received his Ph.D. from Georgetown University. He is the author of A History of Russia, 2 vols. (McGraw-Hill, 1997). He also co-authored Growing Old and edited Humanistic Perspectives on Aging. He has written numerous book reviews and several articles on Russian history, literature, and philosophy and has traveled on many occasions to Russia, the former Soviet Union, and other parts of Europe. He is the author of Alexander II and His Times: A Narrative History of Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky (http://www.emich.edu/public/history/moss), to be published by Anthem Press (Wimbledon Publishing Company) in 2001. He is co-editor along with Terry and Upshur of The Twentieth Century: Readings in Global History. Janice Terry is Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University with a specialty in the modern Middle East. She received her Ph.D. history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is the author of The Wafd, 1919-1952: Cornerstone of Egyptian Political Power and Mistaken Identity: Arab Stereotypes in Popular Writing and has contributed to numerous anthologies and journals. She is also the co-editor of The Arab Studies Quarterly and has lived and traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and Africa. She is another a co-author, along with Goff and Upshur, of the textbook World History and co-editor, along with Moss and Upshur, of The Twentieth Century: Readings in Global History. Jiu-Hwa Upshur is Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University. She received her B.A. from the University of Sydney and Ph.D. in Chinese history from the University of Michigan, where she was a Rackham Prize Fellow. She is the author of book reviews and numerous articles on Chinese history and two catalogs on Chinese art. She is coauthor, along with Goff and Terry, of World History, and coeditor of Lives and Times: Readings in World History and (with Moss and Terry) of The Twentieth Century: Readings in Global History. She chaired the World History Committee of the College Board between 1996-1999 and is currently a member of the Praxis II Social Studies National Advisory Committee of the Educational Testing Service and of the Review Board of "Establishing a New Teaching Field: World History for the Twenty-first Century," funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the College Board. She has lived and traveled extensively in East Asia, India, and Australia.
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