What’s the Significance?
neoliberalism, 1139–40
reglobalization, 1140–43
transnational corporations, 1141–42
North/South gap, 1144
anti-globalization, 1146–47
Prague Spring, 1150
Che Guevara, 1150
second-wave feminism, 1151–52
fundamentalism, 1156–57
Hindutva, 1157
Islamic renewal, 1157–62
Osama bin Laden/al-Qaeda, 1161–62
global warming, 1165
environmentalism, 1165–70
Rachel Carson, 1166–67
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God (2000). A comparison of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic fundamentalism in historical perspective.
Nayan Chanda, Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization (2007). An engaging, sometimes humorous, long-term view of the globalization process.
Jeffrey Frieden, Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2006). A thorough, thoughtful, and balanced history of economic globalization.
Michael Hunt, The World Transformed (2004). A thoughtful global history of the second half of the twentieth century.
J. R. McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth Century World (2001). A much-acclaimed global account of the rapidly mounting human impact on the environment during the most recent century.
Bonnie Smith, ed., Global Feminisms since 1945 (2000). A series of essays about feminist movements around the world.
“No Job for a Woman,” http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/30/women/index.htm. A Web site illustrating the impact of war on the lives of women in the twentieth century.