scholarly journals We need you, Uncle Sam: Images of the USA Entry into World War I in Polish School History Textbooks During the First Two Decades of the Twenty-first Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Białokur ◽  
Karolina Biedka
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
School History ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Polish School ◽  
Twenty First Century

Fourteen Points for the Twenty-First Century

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Food Security ◽  
World War I ◽  
International Development ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
International Order ◽  
First Century ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
World War ◽  
Twenty First Century

This book is a collection of fourteen solutions for some of the twenty-first century’s greatest challenges. Each of the contributors—selected for their expertise and accomplishments in fields as varied as medicine, finance, international development, and history—employs Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points as inspiration, providing historical background to situate Wilson’s ideas in their full context. First presented in 1918 as World War I raged, the original Fourteen Points offered a thoughtful and synthetic plan for overhauling the international order. Inspired by its magnitude and impact, the contributors use Wilson’s framework to prescribe remedies to the following problems: politics; development; migration; environmentalism, medicine, and health care; statecraft, international cooperation, and military restraint; privacy and technology; and food security. Collectively, the volume reassesses and calls for a renewal of the globalism at the heart of Wilson’s influential Fourteen Points a century after they were first offered, with the goal of solving our own century’s most pressing problems.

scholarly journals Historical Perspectives of War, Conflict, and Intervention and their Transformation in the Twenty-First Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 927-938
Author(s):  
Ekaterine Lomia
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Just War Theory ◽  
World Order ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century

Throughout the historic development, conflicts have constantly existed in all the countries of the world and every level of society. Civilization’s perpetual struggle for freedom, independence, justice, and self-determination has many times grown into a direct or indirect confrontation between the opposing sides. However, World War I and World War II were one of the major transformative events in the history of the twentieth century, which resulted in the deaths of millions of humans and numerous destructive consequences. Furthermore, the wars and their results have fundamentally changed the World Order in post-war Europe and the US.  The article aims at providing a better understanding of the phenomenon of war, conflict, and intervention. It also seeks to examine their place in contemporary international relations of today. In particular, the article has aimed to analyze a historical overview of the social, political, and cultural conflicts and studies, how it has been transformed in a modern era of the twenty-first century.  The paper is concluded by highlighting the major principles of the UN on war and intervention since the organization is “Based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its members”. The norms of the Helsinki Final Act and Just War Theory are also highlighted in the context. This study has been prepared as a result of examining articles and books written by many authors who have influential opinions in the field of wars, conflicts, and interventions. The article is particularly helpful to those scholars interested in peace and conflict studies.

After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Ecumenical Protestantism and the Modern American Encounter with Diversity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Hollinger
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Numbers Game ◽  
Mainline Protestant

This chapter addresses the question of why “mainline” Protestant churches experienced a dramatic loss of numbers from the mid-1960s through the early twenty-first century, while the evangelical churches grew. It argues that evangelicals triumphed in the numbers game by continuing to espouse several ideas about race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and divinity that remained popular with the white public when these same ideas were abandoned by leaders of the mainline, ecumenical churches as no longer defensible. The chapter also considers the historical significance of ecumenical Protestantism for U.S. history since World War II. It argues that it facilitated an engagement with many aspects of a diverse modernity that millions of Americans would not have achieved without the support and guidance of the ecumenical churches.

Contemporary Issues

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Tolan ◽  
Gilles Veinstein ◽  
Henry Laurens
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
First Century ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
World War ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Newly Independent States

This chapter chronicles the struggles of the Muslim world and Europe during World War II as well as its aftermath. It shows how the war had helped to end European rule and begin the process of decolonization for Muslim nations such as Libya. And with the Muslim state now independent of direct European domination, the second half of the chapter explores the ways in which the Muslim world tackled the issue of development as well as a fresh wave of problems regarding human rights, universality, and other pitfalls of newly independent states struggling to survive in a world that has changed profoundly after a series of major conflicts. The chapter also reflects on the still-intertwined relationships between the Muslim world and Europe as history progresses into the twenty-first century.

The Growth of an Industry

2014 ◽  
pp. 15-36
Author(s):  
Keith Withall
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Horizontal Integration ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
World War ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Film Form

This chapter examines the second decade of cinema, which runs approximately from 1905 to the start of World War I in 1914. This period sees the establishment of an industrial organisation for film, both in Europe and the USA. The development of the industry involves two key concepts in film studies: vertical and horizontal integration. Essentially, as the industry developed and firms grew larger, they attempted to exert ever greater control on the market. The key was exhibition, which is where the actual money from admissions was made. Both France and the USA are interesting models for study in this development, and each has distinctive features. The study should include as many of the key factors that enabled this growth in monopoly. These include the development of the dedicated film theatre, the introduction of a rental system, and the developments in programming and film form. Also, there is the rich area of stardom as this period sees the establishment of the film centre Hollywood.

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