A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century

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A HISTORY OF THE WORLD FROM THE 20th TO THE 21st CENTURY With the onset of decolonisation, the rise and fall of fascism and comm ...

‘A sweeping synopsis for the history buff.’ Philadelphia Inquirer ‘Students of history are fortunate to have Grenville’s monumen ...

A HISTORY OF THE WORLD FROM THE 20th TO THE 21st CENTURY J. A. S. Grenville 1 ...

The first half of this work was originally published in an earlier form as A World History of the Twentieth Century Volume I: We ...

List of figures viii List of maps ix Acknowledgements x Preface xi Prologue: the world from the 20th to the 21st century 1 I SOC ...

25 The victory of the Allies, 1941–5 276 VI POST-WAR EUROPE, 1945–7 307 26 Zero hour: the Allies and the Germans 309 27 The Sovi ...

60 The prosperous Pacific Rim II: Australia and New Zealand 664 XIV LATIN AMERICA AFTER 1945: PROBLEMS UNRESOLVED 679 61 The wor ...

The Great Communicator. President ...

Nicholas II with his family French soldiers to arms, German soldiers, to Paris, Immigrants waiting in America Lenin addressing ...

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A history of our world over the past century is more fascinating than fiction, filled with drama, the unexpected overtaking even ...

periodicals such as The Economist, Time, News- week, the daily press, broadcasts and a limited amount of foreign news as well as ...

Historical epochs do not coincide strictly with centuries. The French Revolution in 1789, not the year 1800, marked the beginnin ...

There was a sense of cultural affinity among the aristocracy and bourgeoisie of Europe. Governed by monarchs who were related to ...

inferior, the chattels of their fathers or husbands. In India, for example, orthodox Hindu marriage customs were not changed by ...

copper. As its people turned it into the workshop of the world in the nineteenth century, so it relied on food from overseas, in ...

Clearly, then, there was already opposition to imperialism on moral grounds by the beginning of the twentieth century. The oppon ...

farther to the east lay China, the largest nation in the world, with a population in 1900 of about 420 million. When Western inf ...

any one of the living nations will be allowed to have the monopoly of curing or cutting up these unfortunate patients and the co ...