The Twentieth Century: A Brief History
ISBN: 9780072348538 | 0072348534
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 7/17/2001
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Written by a diverse group of scholars who bring their regional expertise together, this unique and comprehensive text uses organization as a key tool to help students appreciate this important period in global history. Its clear prose weaves basic factual information and analysis to create a 'student-friendly' text while still allowing for professors' personal interpretation. An introductory chapter introduces five key topics or themes whose influence on the various developments and events in the twentieth century are chronologically discussed throughout the text. More analysis, less detail and refined prose combine with new and retained features to make the 6th edition of 'The Twentieth Century: A Brief Global History' a best selling text for the 20th Century World course.
| Special Features | x | ||||
| Preface | xiv | ||||
| 1 | (9) | |||
| PART I THE ERA OF IMPERIALISM | |||||
| 10 | (22) | |||
| 32 | (10) | |||
| 42 | (13) | |||
| 55 | (13) | |||
| 68 | (26) | |||
| 94 | (8) | |||
| 102 | (18) | |||
| PART II THE ERA OF REVOLUTION AND WAR | |||||
| 120 | (14) | |||
| 134 | (15) | |||
| 149 | (18) | |||
| 167 | (15) | |||
| 182 | (13) | |||
| 195 | (9) | |||
| 204 | (14) | |||
| 218 | (12) | |||
| 230 | (13) | |||
| 243 | (27) | |||
| PART III THE ERA OF THE COLD WAR AND THE COLLAPSE OF EMPIRES | |||||
| 270 | (21) | |||
| 291 | (22) | |||
| 313 | (16) | |||
| 329 | (25) | |||
| 354 | (14) | |||
| 368 | (13) | |||
| 381 | (12) | |||
| 393 | (17) | |||
| 410 | (16) | |||
| 426 | (18) | |||
| 444 | (18) | |||
| 462 | (14) | |||
| 476 | (25) | |||
| PART IV THE POST-COLD WAR PERIOD | |||||
| 501 | (31) | |||
| 532 | (33) | |||
| APPENDICES | |||||
| 543 | (14) | |||
| 557 | (4) | |||
| 561 | (4) | |||
| Index | 565 |
