Poggio, Pier Paolo

A color-illustrated examination of agriculture, medicine, labor, living and working conditions, energy, transportation, communication, economics, politics, social movements, and cultural attitudes around the world between 1975 and 2000.

Looks at how technology, modernism, and increasing scientific knowledge have led to a political and cultural division, not between East and West, but between those who accept things as they are and those who say they must change.

Looks at how progress in technology, intellectual and scientific work, and society during the first half of the twentieth century led to world war and, ultimately, fundamental changes in world culture.

Looks at the Age of Progress that existed in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the application of science to technology and industry led to faith in the future, but also laid the groundwork for conflict between European states.

Looks at globalization as a product of the unprecedented economic growth in developed countries during the thirty years following World War II as underdeveloped countries struggled with hunger and disease.

A color-illustrated examination of the Industrial Revolution in eleven areas: agriculture, medicine, living conditions, working conditions, production, raw materials, transportation, communication, economics and politics, social movements, and attitudes and cultures.