Twentieth Century: The History of The World, 1901 To 2000
First Statement of Responsibility
/ J. M. Roberts
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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New York
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: Viking
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 1999.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xx, 905 p.:
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Code E.Book: 3159
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این کتاب به فارسی با عنوان " تاریخ جهان قرن بیستم" ترجمه و منتشر شده است
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Index
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The world of 1901 : inheritances. By way of introduction ; Structures ; The white man's world ; Shapes of things to come -- The last years of the European ascendancy. 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 -- The end of the old world order. A revolutionary peace ; Years of illusion -- World revolution. An emerging global history ; The path to world war ; The Second World War -- A new world. Appearance and reality ; The Cold War unrolls ; East Asia reshaped ; Africa and the Near East : old and new problems -- Shifting foundations. Changing minds ; New economic and social worlds ; Authority and its new challengers -- A changing world balance. The Cold War at its height ; Vietnam and after ; The reshaping of Europe -- The end of an era. A world in evolution ; Crumbling certainties ; Post Cold War realities ; Fin-de-siècle ; Retrospect -- Appendix. The exploration of space.