The Rage of Nations: The World in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1
Marked by two world wars, the Holocaust, and a host of violent conflicts, genocides, and violent revolutions, the twentieth century has been the most explosive and destructive in human history. As we enter the twenty-first century, it is vital that we understand what went wrong in the preceding hundred years. This book, the first of a two-volume work by historian Edward Kantowicz, provides an engaging narrative that chronicles the events, people, and ideas driving the world's social and political course in the twentieth century.

The Rage of Nations covers the landmark events from 1900 through the Second World War: the Russo-Japanese War, the global repercussions of World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Great Depression, Mussolini's fascism, Hitler's nazism, Stalin's socialism, the Spanish Civil War, the China of Mao and Chiang Kai-shek, World War II, the development of the atomic bomb, and more.

In addition, Kantowicz probes behind the events themselves, examining their source in the five terrible "isms" of the twentieth century-anarchism, socialism, imperialism, nationalism, and ethnocentrism. Providing compelling, often disconcerting reading, The Rage of Nations will help us make sense of what is happening in the world today by considering important lessons from our recent past.
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The Rage of Nations: The World in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1
Marked by two world wars, the Holocaust, and a host of violent conflicts, genocides, and violent revolutions, the twentieth century has been the most explosive and destructive in human history. As we enter the twenty-first century, it is vital that we understand what went wrong in the preceding hundred years. This book, the first of a two-volume work by historian Edward Kantowicz, provides an engaging narrative that chronicles the events, people, and ideas driving the world's social and political course in the twentieth century.

The Rage of Nations covers the landmark events from 1900 through the Second World War: the Russo-Japanese War, the global repercussions of World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Great Depression, Mussolini's fascism, Hitler's nazism, Stalin's socialism, the Spanish Civil War, the China of Mao and Chiang Kai-shek, World War II, the development of the atomic bomb, and more.

In addition, Kantowicz probes behind the events themselves, examining their source in the five terrible "isms" of the twentieth century-anarchism, socialism, imperialism, nationalism, and ethnocentrism. Providing compelling, often disconcerting reading, The Rage of Nations will help us make sense of what is happening in the world today by considering important lessons from our recent past.
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The Rage of Nations: The World in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1

The Rage of Nations: The World in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1

by Edward R. Kantowicz
The Rage of Nations: The World in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1

The Rage of Nations: The World in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1

by Edward R. Kantowicz

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Marked by two world wars, the Holocaust, and a host of violent conflicts, genocides, and violent revolutions, the twentieth century has been the most explosive and destructive in human history. As we enter the twenty-first century, it is vital that we understand what went wrong in the preceding hundred years. This book, the first of a two-volume work by historian Edward Kantowicz, provides an engaging narrative that chronicles the events, people, and ideas driving the world's social and political course in the twentieth century.

The Rage of Nations covers the landmark events from 1900 through the Second World War: the Russo-Japanese War, the global repercussions of World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Great Depression, Mussolini's fascism, Hitler's nazism, Stalin's socialism, the Spanish Civil War, the China of Mao and Chiang Kai-shek, World War II, the development of the atomic bomb, and more.

In addition, Kantowicz probes behind the events themselves, examining their source in the five terrible "isms" of the twentieth century-anarchism, socialism, imperialism, nationalism, and ethnocentrism. Providing compelling, often disconcerting reading, The Rage of Nations will help us make sense of what is happening in the world today by considering important lessons from our recent past.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780802844552
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date: 02/25/1999
Series: World in the Twentieth Century Series , #1
Pages: 514
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

Edward R. Kantowicz received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. Formerly a professor of history at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, he is currently an independent scholar and writer.

Table of Contents

    Maps
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction

    PART ONE: EUROPE AND THE WORLD IN 1900

  1. Europeans under Siege
    The Boer War; The Boxer Rebellion
  2. The Terrible "Isms"
    Imperialism, Nationalism, Socialism, Anarchism
  3. East and West, North and South
    Colonialism in India and Africa; The Fifth Ism, Ethnocentrism
  4. East Asian Responses to Europe
    Decline of the Manchus in China; Meiji Restoration in Japan
  5. War and Revolution: The Preview
    Russo-Japanese War; Russian Revolution of 1905
  6. PART TWO: THE FIRST WORLD CATASTROPHE

  7. A Murder in Bosnia
    Austro-Hungarian Empire; Sarajevo
  8. The Fatal Alliances
    Causes of World War I
  9. The War of Exhaustion
    World War I
  10. Peace and Consequences
    Results of World War I; Paris Peace Conference; Pacifism and War Resistance
  11. PART THREE: REVOLUTIONS ON THE RIM OF WAR

  12. Revolutions in Red, White, and Black
    Russian Revolutions of 1917; the Counterrevolution and Civil War; the Makhno Anarchist Movement in the Ukraine
  13. Gray Wolf on the Prowl
    The Young Turks; Kemal Ataturk; the Turkish Revolution; The Armenian Genocide
  14. A Tangle of Promises
    The Arab Revolt; Zionism
  15. The Beginning of the End
    Irish Nationalism; The Easter Rising; Irish Independence
  16. Revolutions, Constitutions, and Institutions
    The Mexican Revolution
  17. The Intoxicated Engineers
    The Great Crash and Depression; John Maynard Keynes; Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  18. Italy's "New Deal"
    Benito Mussolini and the Rise of Italian Fascism
  19. A Delayed-Action Fuse
    Adolf Hitler and the Rise of German Nazism
  20. Socialism in One Country
    Joseph Stalin and the Consolidation of Russian Communism
  21. The Spanish Tragedy
    The Spanish Civil War
  22. PART FIVE: THE SECOND WORLD CATASTROPHE

  23. Incidents and Accidents in East Asia
    Chinese Nationalism and the Sino-Japanese War of 1937
  24. The Onset of Hitler's War
    The Origins of World War II in Europe
  25. The Coming of the Greater East Asia War
    The Origins of World War II in the Pacific
  26. Coalition Warfare, Unconditional Surrender
    World War II in Europe and the Pacific
  27. The War of Extermination
    War Crimes; The Holocaust; Strategic Bombing of Cities; The Atom Bomb
  28. The Search for Alternatives
    The Plot to Kill Hitler; The Pacifist Alternative; The United Nations
  29. Afterword — Volume 1
    Suggestions for Further Reading

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