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

nationalist BJP. India’s prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has presided over an economic boom in 2003 and 2004 that has benefi ...

Brazil is the giant among the Latin American states with a population (179 million) almost five times as large as Argentina’s (3 ...

lenge Mugabe. The first treason trial in October 2004 of their leader Morgan Tsuangirai collapsed; his conviction on flimsy evid ...

Yugoslavia. Now there is peace, not perfect har- mony. In 2004, Kosovo and flared into violence to oust Serbian remnants there, ...

in a referendum was a further blow to the belief which had sustained him: that he was not like other politicians. Need for a ref ...

tion have been swept away. Civic freedom and democratic government, the basic requirements of membership, are being anchored in. ...

keenness to send troops to countries whose rulers perpetrate human catastrophes on their own people. The example of Rwanda was r ...

It is justifiable to end a history of the world with more positive reflections. During the century that now lies behind, wars an ...

unskilled. The only way in for the great majority is to take advantage of international obligations for countries to accept peop ...

be born in better governed and more prosperous countries, a long way to go before a meaningful global community emerges. Million ...

This bibliography represents only a fraction of the immense, rich and varied literature concerned with the history of the world ...

1 GENERAL HISTORIES Two stimulating world histories are P. Johnson, Modern Times: History of the World from 1920s to 1990s*, a r ...

by Georges Dupeux, French Society, 1789–1970 (Methuen, 1976), a very useful survey with statistics. See also W. L. Shirer, The C ...

United States There are many excellent general histories of the United States and many others besides those here mentioned could ...

3 ORIGINS AND COURSE OF FIRST WORLD WAR Origins The classic account is the immensely detailed L. Albertini, The Origins of the W ...

Containment and Counter-revolution at Versailles 1918–1919(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968). A good general survey is S. Marks, ...

(Macmillan, 1975); C. Cross, The Fascists in Britain (London, 1961); K. Feiling, The Life of Neville Cham- berlain(Macmillan, 19 ...

10 SPAIN AND THE CIVIL WAR A good general history is R. Carr, Spain, 1808–1939 (Oxford, 1966); see also S. O. Payne, A History o ...

Conference and the Onset of World War II(Harvard, 1974). J. W. Morley (ed.) Japan’s Road to the Pacific War: Deterrent Diplomacy ...

Marsh (eds), Collaboration in France: Politics and Culture during the Nazi Occupation, 1940–1944(Berg, 1989). Important for a st ...