Interpreting the 20th Century: The Struggle Over Democracy

As the 1800s came to a close, the political, social, and economic structures of the world were transformed by the 20th century. First flight and space flight, the Manhattan Project and the Welfare State, the Great Depression and inflation, moving pictures and home computers, the Cold War and terrorism were just some of the changes that took place during this time. It’s not like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it Hide the full description.

The 20th century is defined by the level of change experienced over a 100 year period.

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This extraordinary time is the subject of Interpreting the 20th Century: The Struggle Over Democracy.

The course shows how history’s ideas influenced events and were in turn influenced by them to shape today’s world.

Although the parameters of a truly democratic world order are still being vigorously disputed, it is a unique opportunity to gain a multidisciplinary understanding of how the modern world came to be and how democracy has emerged as a political ideal.

The subject requires an ability to distill political and economic trends from a century of world history, as well as to explain them with clarity, drawing on other disciplines as necessary to make key points come alive.

The perspective of the course is to include the Enlightenment Project, the adoption of liberal, democratic, rationalist principles in much of the world, while emphasizing the unresolved nature of the struggle for democracy.

She concentrates on keeping the big picture clear as she moves across the globe, keeping in mind international trade balances and movements in literature and art.

She consistently shows all sides of an issue when scholars are divided in their opinions and she makes generous use of primary sources, frequently quoting from those sources to ensure that her lectures convey the richest possible sense of each subject.

The course is presented chronologically in seven sections that represent the struggle.

The beginning of World War I is marked in Section 1 as an introduction to the 20th century.

The crises faced by the West in the years between the wars are in Section 2.

Section 3 covers the challenge to democracy presented by Communism, as well as the many approaches to totalitarianism represented by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

There are external challenges to western power from China, India, Mexico, and Japan.

The rise of Existentialism in post-war Europe is explored in section 5.

Section 6 looks at the post-World War II world order, including the Cold War, the changing relationship between science and the state, and the rise of the welfare state.

Section 7 ends the course with a discussion of the challenges of development in a decolonizing world.

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Get it immediately. The struggle over democracy is understood in the 20th century.

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The crisis of meaning unleashed by World War I challenged the political, cultural, and economic values of Western Europe and set the stage for decades of turmoil. Communism and Fascism have different approaches to organizing. The psychological forces swirling through public life were provided a window into art.

You can see those forces at work in the ground-level history of this course.

The level of carnage in the trenches of World War I was unparalleled. The theatrical action of Waiting for Godot turned away from the hope of a salvation in a post-Holocaust world to seek dignity in individual struggle. Protesting over the Vietnam War, inequality of education, the lack of gay rights, and the nature of democratic debate in the United States and around the world is the collective ability of a disillusioned generation. The march through a dazzling variety of famous, infamous, and lesser-known figures who shaped and reflected the century’s tumultuous events and changes.

Idea come alive through detailed case studies.

The course includes several case studies that show how the models covered in the course have been translated into practice in post-colonial nations.

For example, you can see how the developmental model put into effect in Communist China differs from that used in Democratic India, and the different results achieved in two countries that began their development process with very similar problems.

In Japan, the authoritarian model has been put into place.

There are three models of feminism that have resulted from the global women’s movement.

Women are organizing around their status as mothers, as in the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo who alert the world to Argentina’s disappeared Women in India’s southwestern state of Tamil Nadu are linked to the everyday resistance model. The United States has a more familiar model of feminism.

As you view the course’s issues through different perspectives, you frequently venture off the pathways of geopolitics or national revolution. In the fifth lecture, you will see how the ideas of Freud and Nietzsche were turned into a chaotic post-World War I attack on the certainty, rationality, and objectivity of the 19th-century Western culture.

Get it immediately. The struggle over democracy is understood in the 20th century. You understand the mood of an artistic world desperately trying to reject the past and steer a course toward what had to be when you look at paintings by Hannah Hoch or Otto Dix.

Defining democracy is a challenge.

Professor Radcliff says that the main issue you address in this course is still a work in progress.

After the better part of a century, the world’s nations are still trying to define what real democracy is and how to establish it, in the sense of fostering and sustaining relationships based on equality and not on raw power.

We continue to watch the process.