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Tucker examines the environmental impact of industrialization, starting with its western origins in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and its complete globalization in the twentieth century.

Quataert examines the historiography of human rights and shows that the human rights system of international laws and institutions developed out of a clearly defined set of historical struggles: a result from above-level legal changes responding to pressures and interventions from below-level grassroots organizations.

Historical interpretations of the First and Second World Wars have undergone significant changes in the past 50 years. Morrow examines the origins, courses, and impacts of both in a global context, and argues that these conflicts are part of a larger, historical whole.

Seeking a paradigm to understand the full impact of twentieth-century urbanization, Howard Spodek takes an historical look at the concept of cites, as they first developed from nomadic to village existence about 15,000 years ago, to the establishment of the first major cities about 5,000 years ago, and to urban industrialiaztion that took place about 200 years ago

Moya and McKeown examine the concept of mass migration as it developed as a new socioeconomic phenomenon in the nineteenth century, and its impact on world culture throughout the twentieth century.

In an attempt the challenge the traditional exceptionalist view of American history, Guarneri bridges the gap between American and world history, and furthers a budding relationship between them.

Bonnie Smith examines the changing role of women throughout the twentieth century--in the workplace, poltically, economically, and culturally through the lens of world history.