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Title A dictionary of contemporary world history / Christopher Riches and Jan Palmowski
Edition Sixth edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021
©2021
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Description 1 online resource : maps (black and white)
Series Oxford quick reference
Oxford quick reference.
Summary With over 2800 entries, this dictionary provides informative and analytical entries on the most important people, organizations, events, movements, and ideas that have shaped the world we live in. Covering the period from 1900 to the present day, this fully revised and updated edition presents a global perspective on recent history, with a wide range of new entries from Tony Abbott, the European migration crisis, and ISIS to Narendra Modi, Hassan Rouhani, and UKIP. All existing entries have been brought up to date
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 2, 2021)
Subject History, Modern -- 20th century -- Dictionaries.
History, Modern -- 21st century -- Dictionaries
Statesmen -- Biography -- Dictionaries
History, Modern.
Statesmen.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Form Electronic book
Author Palmowski, Jan, editor.
Riches, Christopher, editor.
ISBN 0191890944
9780191890949
Other Titles Oxford dictionary of contemporary world history