Twentieth century : the history of the world, 1901 to 2000 /
Roberts, J. M. 1928-2003.
Twentieth century : the history of the world, 1901 to 2000 / 20th century J.M. Roberts. - 1st American ed. - New York : Viking Penguin, 1999. - xx, 905 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
"J.M. Roberts author of a History of Europe" T p. cover
Includes bibliographical references and index
By way of introduction -- Structures -- The white man's world -- Shapes of things to come -- European exceptionalism -- Europe as a system of power -- Challenges and challengers in the making -- The Great War and the beginning of the twentieth-century revolution -- A revolutionary peace -- Years of illusion -- An emerging global history -- The path to world war -- The Second World War -- Appearance and reality -- The Cold War unrolls -- East Asia reshaped -- Africa and the Near East: Old and new problems -- Changing minds -- New economic and social worlds -- Authority and its new challengers -- The Cold War at its height -- Vietnam and after -- The reshaping of Europe -- A world in evolution -- Crumbling certainties -- Post Cold War realities -- Fin-de-siecle -- Retrospect.
0670884561 (alk. paper) 9780670884568 (alk. paper)
99041833
History, Modern--20th century.
Historia Moderna--Siglo XX
D 421 / R645t 1999
909.82
Twentieth century : the history of the world, 1901 to 2000 / 20th century J.M. Roberts. - 1st American ed. - New York : Viking Penguin, 1999. - xx, 905 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
"J.M. Roberts author of a History of Europe" T p. cover
Includes bibliographical references and index
By way of introduction -- Structures -- The white man's world -- Shapes of things to come -- European exceptionalism -- Europe as a system of power -- Challenges and challengers in the making -- The Great War and the beginning of the twentieth-century revolution -- A revolutionary peace -- Years of illusion -- An emerging global history -- The path to world war -- The Second World War -- Appearance and reality -- The Cold War unrolls -- East Asia reshaped -- Africa and the Near East: Old and new problems -- Changing minds -- New economic and social worlds -- Authority and its new challengers -- The Cold War at its height -- Vietnam and after -- The reshaping of Europe -- A world in evolution -- Crumbling certainties -- Post Cold War realities -- Fin-de-siecle -- Retrospect.
0670884561 (alk. paper) 9780670884568 (alk. paper)
99041833
History, Modern--20th century.
Historia Moderna--Siglo XX
D 421 / R645t 1999
909.82