Bøger af Choi Chatterjee

The authors go back to 1880 to present a thematic history of the tumultuous 20th century organized in fifteen chapters that stress cultural, social, and material issues as well as major political developments. Carefully selected case studies bring to life in ordinary experience the themes of each chapter.

Choi Chatterjee analyzes both Bolshevik attitudes towards women and the invented state rituals surrounding Women's Day to demonstrate the ways these celebrations helped construct gender notions in the Soviet Union.

Organized into 15 chapters that stress cultural, social and material issues, as well as major political developments, this book deals with such topics as modernization, imperialism, social revolutions, fascism, feminism, fundamentalism, war and peace, science, population and economic inequality.