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A Concise History of the Modern World
1500 to the Present: A Guide to World Affairs
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About this book
By investigating the major changes of world history during the past five hundred years, this book provides the necessary global perspective to understand the geopolitical and geoeconomic changes facing us today. We have reached a crucial transitional stage in world history in which the world will no longer be shaped by the single image of western modernism, but increasingly by the image of all cultures and civilizations. The need to take a world view - which this book provides - has become acute.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Preface to the Fourth Edition
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Origin of our Times: an Asian-dominated World
- 3 Europe: 1500โ1914
- 4 Africa: 1500โ1914
- 5 The Rise of the West
- 6 The Impact of Western Man
- 7 'White Peril' in the East
- 8 The Expansion of the Russian Empire
- 9 The Expansion of the American Empires
- 10 The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions
- 11 The Great War: 1914โ18
- 12 1917: Communism โ A New World Religion
- 13 Asia in the Interwar Years
- 14 The Second World War: 1939โ45
- 15 The Balance of Terror
- 16 The Decolonization of Africa
- 17 Communism and its Collapse in the USSR and Eastern Europe
- 18 Latin America and the United States in the Twentieth Century
- 19 Western Europe and North America
- 20 The Resurgence of Asia
- 21 The Threat of World Anarchy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index