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

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largely peasant society for three decades. Many millions perished in the terror he unleashed, the class war and as a result of e ...

two sovereign nations was the long continental border between Canada and the US. By the closing years of the century all the fro ...

in burgeoning California. The proportion of Europeans fell to less than one-fifth of the total number of immigrants. The second- ...

1979, one in ten were dead by the beginning of 1981. In Africa there are still countries where one child in four does not surviv ...

needs to be created? ‘Communism’ too has lost precise meaning. Communism in China today is very different from the communism of ...

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1 Part I SOCIAL CHANGE AND NATIONAL RIVALRY IN EUROPE, 1900–14 ...

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During the first half of the twentieth century Europe suffered a cataclysmic change. The lives of millions were destroyed, milli ...

Britain in coal production, by 1914 Germany had almost closed the gap and, after the US and Britain, was the third industrial po ...

the political parties and change horses to secure the majorities he needed to pass bills. It worked after a fashion, though corr ...

conflict, the German people, including the Social Democrats, felt a strong sense of national pride in the progress of the ‘fathe ...

military pact four years later. It was the beginning of the process that split Europe into two opposing camps. Britain tried to ...

standing army by calling up an additional 136,000 conscripts. This measure was designed to bring the peacetime strength of the a ...

population growth and rapid industrialisation. For close on half a century from 1866 to 1906 the occupations of the majority of ...

the decrees of the state. Each prefect in his depart- ment had his own administration which could be appealed against only by pu ...

socially conservative voters: the peasants who owned their land, shopkeepers, craftsmen, civil servants and pensioners with smal ...

The assertiveness of France in the wider world stands in remarkable contrast to the conservatism of French society at home. The ...

close as it could to its Russian ally (even at the risk of being sucked into war by purely Russian Balkan interests) and to the ...