1st Edition
The 1914–2024 War Atlas Modernity Deciphered Anew
The 1914–2024 War Atlas deconstructs the contemporary widespread and well-known image of the 20th and 21st centuries, arguing for the continuity of the historical process covering the period 1914–2024.
The years between 1914 and 2024 constitute a period of unparalleled economic growth, scientific advancement, political development, and social change – in just over 100 years, human civilization has moved from an industrial to a digital age. However, they also cover some of the most dangerous, violent, and politically volatile years in human history. In these years, two world wars have been fought; weapons of mass destruction dropped; authoritarian and democratic regimes alike have risen and fallen; and regional conflicts have been almost continuous, effectively conjoining World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the Russo-Ukrainian war. This volume indicates that the 1914 July Crisis set in motion a sequence of events that spanned over 100 years. Containing a range of colourful maps and charts, this book graphically illustrates the arguments presented in both an informative and visual way.
This atlas will serve as a perfect textbook for students studying history, geography, politics, and international relations, as well as being a useful guide to contemporary world politics for researchers and for those interesting in the international relations and modern history.
Chapter 1 The cogs
Chapter 2 Reading maps – framing the space
Chapter 3 The scenes
Chapter 4 Deciphering history – framing the time
Chapter 5 The milestones
Chapter 6 The first cog – European cycle of power and decay vs the new Hundred Years’ War
Chapter 7 The European tides
Chapter 8 Deconstructing the 20th and 21st centuries – the new Hundred Years’ War
Chapter 9 The borders
Chapter 10 The power systems and arrangements
Chapter 11 The international community voices
Conclusions
Biography
Marcin Wojciech Solarz is a geographer, political scientist, and the IR researcher at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies of the University of Warsaw, Poland; Head of the Department of Political and Historical Geography, FGRS UW; and Head of the project 'Forest Germans (Głuchoniemcy, Walddeutsche): the past and present of forgotten local communities in the Carpathian Foothills,' 2020–2025. His previous works include: The Language of Global Development: A Misleading Geography (2014), The Global North-South Atlas: Mapping Global Change (2020) and 'Geography and the world’s development divides' in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Development (2023), and other works; he is also scientific editor and co-author of the Atlas of Poland’s Political Geography: Poland in the Modern World (2018; third place in the 'Atlases' category at the International Cartographic Exhibition in Japan in 2019), New Geographies of the Globalized World (2018), and the Atlas of Poland’s Political Geography: Poland in the Modern World: 2022 Perspective (2022).
