THE 20TH CENTURY WORLD

Catalog description

Survey of 20th century history. Taking globalization and the stresses and successes of modernity as unifying themes, this course examines topics such as culture and ideology; sovereignty and decolonization; nation and nationalism; war and peace; Cold War and non-alignment; revolutions and the nuclear question; and some of the myriad ways different people and peoples across the world have embraced, exploited, contested, struggled and persevered, impacted and been transformed by the modern world.