1st Edition

The 1914–2024 War Atlas Modernity Deciphered Anew

By Marcin Wojciech Solarz Copyright 2025
178 Pages 126 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 126 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 126 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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), 'Geography and the world’s development divides' in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Development (2023), and other works; he is also scientific editor and coauthor 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).