Through a global lens spanning Africa, the Middle East, Russia, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, this volume traces the major developments of the twentieth century from the rise of globalization to the dawn of the digital age; from the Great War (1914-1918) to the "great war in Africa" (1998-2003); from the first genocide of the century in Namibia to the Bosnian-Kosovo genocides of the late 1990s.