The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century - Michael Howard, Wm. Roger Louis (editors)

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Of all the centuries in recorded history, none has seen more change, non has ended more differently than it began, than the twentieth. In 1900, Queen Victoria still ruled over England, the Imperial Manchu dynasty over China, and the Romanov Tsars over Russia. The cinema was in its infancy, radio and television still to be discovered. The first cars were on the road, but air travel existed only in earthbound imaginations. And now, as Yeats said, all is "changed utterly".
In this ambitious book, twenty-four of the most distinguished historians in the world survey the momentous events and the significant themes of the twentieth century, with a look ahead to what the future might bring.
We have William H? McNeill on communications, disease, and demography, Alan Ryan on the growth of a global culture, James Patterson on the United States since 1945, Jonathan Spence on China, Lawrence Freedman on the confrontation of the superpowers, Alan Knight on Latin-America, Ralf Dahrendorf on the twenty-first century, and much ...
1998Taal: Engelszie alle details...

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1998Uitgever: Oxford University Press458 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0198204280ISBN-13: 9780198204282

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