the history of the world, 1901 to 2000 Roberts, J. M. (John Morris) 1928-2003 creator text bibliography nyu New York Viking Penguin 1999 1st American ed. monographic eng

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xx, 905 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. By way of introduction -- Structures -- The white man's world -- Shapes of things to come -- 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 -- A revolutionary peace -- Years of illusion -- An emerging global history -- The path to world war -- The Second World War -- Appearance and reality -- The Cold War unrolls -- East Asia reshaped -- Africa and the Near East: Old and new problems -- Changing minds -- New economic and social worlds -- Authority and its new challengers -- The Cold War at its height -- Vietnam and after -- The reshaping of Europe -- A world in evolution -- Crumbling certainties -- Post Cold War realities -- Fin-de-siecle -- Retrospect. J.M. Roberts. "J.M. Roberts author of a History of Europe" T p. cover Includes bibliographical references and index History, Modern 20th century Historia Moderna Siglo XX D 421 R645t 1999 909.82 0670884561 (alk. paper) 9780670884568 (alk. paper) 99041833 DLC 990722 20230410105144.0 90804