World migration in the long twentieth century / Jose C. Moya and Adam McKeown -- Twentieth-century urbanization : in search of an urban paradigm for an urban world / Howard Spodek -- Women in the twentieth-century world / Bonnie G. Smith -- The gendering of human rights in the international systems of law in the twentieth century / Jean H. Quataert -- The impact of the two world wars in a century of violence / John H. Morrow, Jr. -- Locating the United States in twentieth-century world history / Carl J. Guarneri -- The technopolitics of Cold War : towards a transregional perspective / Gabrielle Hecht and Paul N. Edwards -- A century of environmental transitions / Richard P. Tucker
Summary
Probing the paradoxes of "the long twentieth century"--Unprecedented human opportunity and deprivation to the rise of the United States as a hegemon
