Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-395) and index
Introduction -- Origin of our times: an Asian-dominated world -- Europe: 1500-1914 -- Africa: 1500-1914 -- The rise of the West -- The impact of Western man -- 'White peril' in the East -- The expansion of the Russian empire -- The expansion of the American empires -- The scientific and industrial revolutions -- The Great War: 1914-18 -- 1917: Communism -- a new world religion -- Asia in the interwar years -- The Second World War: 1939-45 -- The balance of terror -- The decolonization of Africa -- Communism and its collapse int he USSR and Eastern Europe -- Latin America and the United States in the twentieth century -- Wester Europe and North America -- The resurgence of Asia -- The threat of world anarchy