Trillium Listed!Twentieth Century Viewpoints: An Interpretive History for the 21st Century features both social and political events that have helped shape our world up to 2002. Designed for senior history and social studies students, this full-colour, user-friendly text provides cross-curricular links to economicsand geography.French version le Xxe Siecle available. Please contact Cheneliere Education (www.cheneliere.ca) for details.

This comprehensive resource is divided into five clearly defined sections: introduction, skills development, activities, student handouts, and supplementary case studies.

Twentieth Century Viewpoints is designed for senior history students. Unit One: 1900-1945 is a chronological study of the first half of the twentieth century. Unit Two: The Cold War focuses on relations between the United States and the Soviet Union until the end of the Cold War. Unit Three: The Global Village highlights world regions, including case studies of specific countries. Special features include Profiles, which provide snapshots of key individuals, and Voices, which present opinions and analyses about important events and issues. Each chapter includes review questions and enrichment activities. A key feature in each chapter is Viewpoints in which noted authorities present opposing opinions as they argue for or against important issues or questions. The text is illustrated with photographs, maps, and diagrams.

Focusing mainly on the development of newspapers, film, radio, television, and the Internet in the United States and Western Europe, Media and Society in the Twentieth Century fills a critical need for students and scholars by offering a historical introduction to the mass media in our time. Provides an up-to-date, readable, and informative survey of the history of mass media in the twentieth century. Offers a historical and comparative perspective to emphasize the importance of contemporary media and to explain why particular media systems exist. Focuses on the development of newspapers, film, radio, and television for purposes of entertainment, information, and persuasion. Explores recent media developments, including the Internet and globalization, from a historical perspective.

Articles offer opposing viewpoints on America's transition from isolationism to significant involvement in world affairs

For more than half of the twentieth century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two hostile and competitive nation-states, each claiming to be the sole legitimate expression of the Korean nation. The division remains an unsolved problem dating to the beginnings of the Cold War and now projects the politics of that period into the twenty-first century. Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey is designed to provide readers with the historical essentials upon which to unravel the complex politics and contemporary crises that currently exist in the East Asian region. Beginning with a description of late-nineteenth-century imperialism, Michael Robinson shows how traditional Korean political culture shaped the response of Koreans to multiple threats to their sovereignty after being opened to the world economy by Japan in the 1870s. He locates the origins of both modern nationalism and the economic and cultural modernization of Korea in the twenty years preceding the fall of the traditional state to Japanese colonialism in 1910. Robinson breaks new ground with his analysis of the colonial period, tracing the ideological division of contemporary Korea to the struggle of different actors to mobilize a national independence movement at the time. More importantly, he locates the reason for successful Japanese hegemony in policies that included—and thus implicated—Koreans within the colonial system. He concludes with a discussion of the political and economic evolution of South and North Korea after 1948 that accounts for the valid legitimacy claims of both nation-states on the peninsula.