03833cam a2200337Ia 45000010006000000050017000060080041000230350024000640400018000880200015001060200018001210350021001390500026001600820018001861000028002042450076002322600039003083000064003475000079004115000085004905040060005755050810006355200774014455200774022195200235029936510042032286510051032706510055033216510040033767000079034165408920230410103746.0071010s2007    nyuab    b    001 0 eng d  a(OCoLC)ocn174007509  aUABbfrecUAB  a0060875984  a9780060875985  a(OCoLC)17400750914a322 DA 16bR643h 200700a909.0975210811 aRoberts, Andrew,d1963-12aA history of the English-speaking peoples since 1900 /cAndrew Roberts.  aNew York :bHarperCollins,cc2007.  axiii, 736 p. :bill. (certaines en coul.), cartes ;c24 cm.  aContinues Winston Churchill’s A history of the English-speaking peoples.  a"First published in Great Britain in 2006 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson"--T.p. verso.  aComprend des ref. bibliogr. (p. [668]-691) et un index.  aA portrait of the English-speaking peoples at the dawn of the twentieth century -- Shouldering ’The white manʼs burden’: 1900-4 -- American arrives: 1905-14 -- The first assault: Prussian militarism 1914-17 -- Peace guilt: 1918-19 -- American energy: 1920-9 -- Capitalism at bay: 1929-31 -- The second assault: fascist aggression 1931-9 -- Divided and faltering: 1939-41 -- United and conquering: 1942-4 -- Normandy to Nagasaki: 1944-5 -- The third assault: Soviet communism 1945-9 -- Cold War perils: the 1950s -- Civis Americanus sum: the 1960s -- The long, dismal, drawling tides: the 1970s -- Attritional victory: the 1980s -- The wasted breathing space: 1990-11 September 2001 -- The fourth assault: Islamicist terrorism and its de facto allies: 11 September 2001-15 December 2005 -- Conclusion.  aTaking up the mantle of Winston Churchill, Roberts delivers the ambitious sequel to one of the greatest, most influential books of the 20th century. In 1900, where Churchill ended the fourth volume of his History of the English Speaking Peoples, the United States had not yet emerged onto the world scene as a great power. Meanwhile, the British Empire was in decline but did not yet know it. Any number of other powers might have won primacy in the twentieth century and beyond, including Germany, Russia, possibly even France. Yet the coming century was to belong to the English-speaking peoples, who successively and successfully fought the Kaiserʼs Germany, Axis aggression and Soviet Communism, and who are now struggling against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.  aTaking up the mantle of Winston Churchill, Roberts delivers the ambitious sequel to one of the greatest, most influential books of the 20th century. In 1900, where Churchill ended the fourth volume of his History of the English Speaking Peoples, the United States had not yet emerged onto the world scene as a great power. Meanwhile, the British Empire was in decline but did not yet know it. Any number of other powers might have won primacy in the twentieth century and beyond, including Germany, Russia, possibly even France. Yet the coming century was to belong to the English-speaking peoples, who successively and successfully fought the Kaiserʼs Germany, Axis aggression and Soviet Communism, and who are now struggling against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism.  aAlso includes information on Al-Queda, Osama bin-Laden, Adolf Hitler, Iraq War (2003), Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Josef Stalin, Margaret Thatcher, Harry S. Truman, war against terror, Woodrow Wilson, 0aGreat BritainxHistoryy20th century. 0aCommonwealth countriesxHistoryy20th century. 0aEnglish-speaking countriesxHistoryy20th century. 4aGran BretañaxHistoriaySiglo XX.1 aChurchill, Winston,d1874-1965..tHistory of the English-speaking peoples.