| Description |
xii, 401 pages : maps ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Origin of our Times: an Asian-dominated World -- 3. Europe: 1500-1914 -- 4. Africa: 1500-1914 -- 5. The Rise of the West -- 6. The impact of Western Man -- 7. 'White Peril' in the East -- 8. The Expansion of the Russian Empire -- 9. The Expansion of the American Empires -- 10. The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions -- 11. The Great War: 1914-18 -- 12. 1917: Communism - a New World Religion -- 13. Asia in the Interwar Years -- 14. The Second World War: 1939-45 -- 15. The Balance of Terror -- 16. The Decolonization of Africa -- 17. Communism and its Collapse in the USSR and Eastern Europe -- 18. Twentieth-century Latin America -- 19. Europe and the Western Hemisphere -- 20. The Resurgence of Asia -- 21. The Threat of World Anarchy |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1993 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography and index |
| Subject |
History, Modern.
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| ISBN |
0333687930 |
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0333687949 (paperback) |
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