| Description |
xviii, 973 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 933-950) and index. |
| Contents |
Social change and national rivalry in the West, 1900-1914 -- The response of China and Japan to western dominance -- The Great War, revolution and the search for stability -- The continuing world crisis, 1929-1939 -- The Second World War -- Post-war Europe, 1945-1947 -- The United States and the beginning of the Cold War, 1945-1948 -- THe transformation of Asia, 1945-1955 -- The ending of European dominance in the Middle East, 1919-1980 -- The Cold War : superpower confrontation, 1948-1964 -- The recovery of Western Europe in the 1950s and 1960s -- Who will liberate the Third World? : 1954-1968 -- Two faces of Asia : after 1949 -- Latin America after 1945 : problems unresolved -- Africa after 1945 : conflict and the threat of famine -- The United States and the Soviet bloc after 1963 : the great transformation -- Western Europe gathers strength : after 1968 -- The Cold War and after. |
| Summary |
Reference guide to twentieth-century history, with over 275 photographs. |
| Subject |
History, Modern -- 20th century.
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History, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00958367
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Wereldgeschiedenis.
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Modern history -- 1900-1999 (20th century)
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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Weltgeschichte 1900-1993.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Grenville, J.A.S. (John Ashley Soames), 1928- History of the world in the twentieth century. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994 (OCoLC)624437951 |
| ISBN |
0674399609 |
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9780674399600 |
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