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458

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2000, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
The dawn of the century / Michael Howard --
Demography and urbanization / William H. McNeill --
The great reduction: physics in the twentieth century / Steven Weinberg --
The expansion of knowledge / John Maddox --
The growth of a world economy / Robert Skidelsky --
The growth of a global culture / Alan Ryan --
The visual arts / Norbert Lynton --
The European Colonial Empires / Wm. Roger Louis --
Europe in the age of the two world wars / Michael Howard --
The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 1900-1945 / Richard Stites --
The United States, 1900-1945 / Hugh Brogan --
East Asia and the emergence of Japan, 1900-1945 / Akira Iriye --
The confrontation of the superpowers, 1945-1990 / Lawrence Freedman --
The United States since 1945 / James Patterson --
The Soviet Union and beyond / Archie Brown --
The Remaking of Europe / Anne Deighton.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
East Asia / Akira Iriye --
China / Jonathan Spence --
South-East Asia / Michael Leifer --
South Asia / Judith M. Brown --
North Africa and the Middle East / Roger Owen --
Africa / Terence Ranger --
Latin America / Alan Knight --
The Old Commonwealth: the first four dominions / Peter Lyon --
Towards a world community? the United Nations and International Law / Adam Roberts --
The close of the twentieth century / Wm. Roger Louis --
Towards the twenty-first century -- Ralf Dahrendorf.

Edition Notes

Originally published: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-359) and index.

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Oxford
Other Titles
History of the twentieth century.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
909.82
Library of Congress
D421 .O95 2000,

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 458 pages, [60] pages of plates :
Number of pages
458

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26343286M
Internet Archive
oxfordhistoryoft00mich
ISBN 10
0192853708
ISBN 13
9780192853707
OCLC/WorldCat
59437730

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