The Oxford history of the twentieth century / edited by Michael Howard and Wm. Roger Louis
- Bib ID:
- 2059791
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998
- xxii, 458 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0198204280
- Full contents:
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- Pt. I. The Framework of the Century. 1. The Dawn of the Century / Michael Howard. 2. Demography and Urbanization / William H. McNeill. 3. The Great Reduction: Physics in the Twentieth Century / Steven Weinberg. 4. The Expansion of Knowledge / John Maddox. 5. The Growth of a World Economy / Robert Skidelsky. 6. The Growth of a Global Culture / Alan Ryan. 7. The Visual Arts / Norbert Lynton
- Pt. II. The Eurocentric World, 1900-1945. 8. The European Colonial Empires / Wm. Roger Louis. 9. Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars / Michael Howard. 10. The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 1900-1945 / Richard Stites. 11. The United States, 1900-1945 / Hugh Brogan. 12. East Asia and the Emergence of Japan, 1900-1945 / Akira Iriye
- Pt. III. The Cold War, 1945-1990. 13. The Confrontation of the Superpowers, 1945-1990 / Lawrence Freedman. 14. The United States since 1945 / James Patterson. 15. The Soviet Union and Beyond / Archie Brown. 16. The Remaking of Europe / Anne Deighton.
- Pt. IV. The Wider World. 17. East Asia / Akira Iriye. 18. China / Jonathan Spence. 19. South-East Asia / Michael Leifer. 20. South Asia / Judith M. Brown. 21. North Africa and the Middle East / Roger Owen. 22. Africa / Terence Ranger. 23. Latin America / Alan Knight. 24. The Old Commonwealth: The First Four Dominions / Peter Lyon. 25. Towards a World Community? The United Nations and International Law / Adam Roberts
- Pt. V. Envoi. 26. The Close of the Twentieth Century / Wm. Roger Louis. 27. Towards the Twenty-First Century / Ralf Dahrendorf
- Chronology / Adolf Wood and W. Travis Hanes III.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [344]-359) and index.
- Subject:
- History, Modern -- 20th century
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