[PDF] War And Social Change In The Twentieth Century eBook

Author : Arthur Marwick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 1988-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 134919574X

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A collection of essays supported by statistics on the social consequences of the two world wars. It covers the main European countries and a range of major issues including the levels of economic activity, women's employment and the extent of executions of collaborators.

Author : Steven Heydemann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2000-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520224221

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A fresh look at the effects of war on state and society in the Middle East, challenging traditional assumptions based on European experience. The authors argue that war has destabilized Middle Eastern states and eroded national cohesion.

Author : Michael Kammen
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307827712

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Americans have a long history of public arguments about taste, the uses of leisure, and what is culturally appropriate in a democracy that has a strong work ethic. Michael Kammen surveys these debates as well as our changing taste preferences, especially in the past century, and the shifting perceptions that have accompanied them. Professor Kammen shows how the post-traditional popular culture that flourished after the 1880s became full-blown mass culture after World War II, in an era of unprecedented affluence and travel. He charts the influence of advertising and opinion polling; the development of standardized products, shopping centers, and mass-marketing; the separation of youth and adult culture; the gradual repudiation of the genteel tradition; and the commercialization of organized entertainment. He stresses the significance of television in the shaping of mass culture, and of consumerism in its reconfiguration over the past two decades. Focusing on our own time, Kammen discusses the use of the fluid nature of cultural taste to enlarge audiences and increase revenues, and reveals how the public role of intellectuals and cultural critics has declined as the power of corporate sponsors and promoters has risen. As a result of this diminution of cultural authority, he says, definitive pronouncements have been replaced by divergent points of view, and there is, as well, a tendency to blur fact and fiction, reality and illusion. An important commentary on the often conflicting ways Americans have understood, defined, and talked about their changing culture in the twentieth century.

Author : Gabriel Kolko
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1595587284

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Another Century of War? is a candid and critical look at America's “new wars” by a brilliant and provocative analyst of its old ones. Gabriel Kolko's masterly studies of conflict have redefined our views of modern warfare and its effects; in this urgent and timely treatise, he turns his attention to our current crisis and the dark future it portends. Another Century of War? insists that the roots of terrorism lie in America's own cynical policies in the Middle East and Afghanistan, a half-century of real politik justified by crusades for oil and against communism. The latter threat has disappeared, but America has become even more ambitious in its imperialist adventures and, as the recent crisis proves, even less secure. America, Kolko contends, reacts to the complexity of world affairs with its advanced technology and superior firepower, not with realistic political response and negotiation. He offers a critical and well-informed assessment of whether such a policy offers any hope of attaining greater security for America. Raising the same hard-hitting questions that made his Century of War a “crucial” (Globe and Mail) assessment of our age of conflict, Kolko asks whether the wars of the future will end differently from those in our past.

Author : Arthur Marwick
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780335093120

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A summary of the main issues relating to war, peace and social change in 20th-century Europe. The book discusses the nature and causes of war and analyzes the debates over exactly what effects the two world wars have had on both geopolitical and social developments in the 20th century.