A Concise History of the Modern World

1500 to the Present
1993
ISBN: 978-0-333-60412-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 297 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

In an ever-shrinking world, the need for a global perspective in dealing with the modern world has become acute. This book attempts to provide such a perspective by investigating the major changes in geopolitics and world economy during the past 500 years. However compact, it enables us to understand the present unravelling of Communism and the growing challenge from Asia to Western Superiority. It is shown that in so many ways the problems of the contemporary world spring from the unprecedented era of western domination, which the non-western world is now trying to unlive.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woodruff, William

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps - Preface - Origin of Our Times: An Asian-Dominated World - The Rise of the West - The Impact of Western Man - The Expansion of the Russian Empire - The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions - The Expansion of the American Empires - The Great War: 1914-1918 - 1917: Communism: A New World Religion - 'White Peril' in the East: The Response of China and Japan - The Second World War: 1939-1945 - The Balance of Terror - The Resurgence of Asia - The Decolonization of Africa - Twentieth Century Latin America - Epilogue: The Threat of World Anarchy - Select Bibliography - Notes - Index

Über Autor(innen)

WILLIAM WOODRUFF is Graduate Research Professor (Emeritus) in Economic History at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Woodruff's books
include , , and a best-selling memoir . His writings have been widely translated.