Twentieth century : the history of the world, 1901 to 2000 /
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| Author / Creator: | Roberts, J. M. (John Morris), 1928-2003 |
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Viking, 1999. |
| Description: | xx, 905 p. : maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4116189 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Book 1. The World of 1901: Inheritances
- 1. By Way of Introduction
- Our century
- The weight of the past
- The different pasts of 1901
- The 'civilized' world
- Culture and hegemony
- 'One-half of the human species'
- Ideas with a future
- The scientific legacy
- Movers and shakers
- 2. Structures
- Human numbers
- The world's wealth
- Commerce
- States and governments
- Monarchy
- Non-western government
- Islamic empires
- The United States of America
- Latin America
- The international order: power and great powers
- Potential for change
- 3. The White Man's World
- Empire and imperialism
- The European empires
- Idealism, interests and imagination
- Settlers and natives
- Imperialism and international relations: the 'Scramble for Africa'
- Asian and Pacific empire
- The imperial United States
- The South African war
- 4. Shapes of Things to Come
- Long-term demography
- The divisions of humanity
- A century of growing wealth
- An industrializing world
- New technology
- Medical science
- Communication
- Mass communication
- Changing mentalities
- Acceleration and integration
- Book 2. The Last Years of the European Ascendancy
- 5. European Exceptionalism
- Europeans
- Privilege and unrest
- Socialism
- Mass politics and nationalism
- Constitutional governments
- The German empire
- Dynasticism
- Religion in European life
- Tensions and strains
- Women in Europe
- 6. Europe as a System of Power
- International order
- Alliances and entanglements
- The dissatisfied and dangerous
- The appearance of security
- New alignments
- Deepening divisions
- Young Turks
- Russia's changing stance
- Agadir and after
- The Balkan wars
- 7. Challenges and Challengers in the Making
- Change and perceptions of change in Asia
- The new Japan
- The end of the Chinese empire
- The European empires in the Far East
- Indo-China and Indonesia
- India under the Raj
- India enters the twentieth century
- Egypt and the end of Ottoman Africa
- Ottoman empire east of Suez
- New actors in the imperial drama
- 8. The Great War and the Beginning of the Twentieth-century Revolution
- The last crisis
- The end of an age
- The Great War
- The changing world
- 1917
- Revolutionary war
- Triumphs of nationality
- The Ottoman collapse
- The end of the first German war
- Book 3. The End of the Old World Order
- 9. A Revolutionary Peace
- The basis of settlement
- The League
- The international economy
- Economic disorder in Europe
- Democracy and nationality
- Revolution and counter-revolution
- The new Germany
- International communism
- The new Russian empire
- A new autocracy
- A world divided
- 10. Years of Illusion
- A last flourish of empire
- Kemal Ataturk
- Iran
- New currents in Europe's politics
- An authoritarian wave
- New uncertainties
- The optimistic years
- Locarno and after
- An eastern enigma
- The United States
- Book 4. World Revolution
- 11. An Emerging Global History
- The world depression
- Asia in the era of European civil war
- The sequel to the Chinese revolution
- Japan
- The peace settlements and Asia
- Chinese communism
- Japanese dynamism
- Civil war in China
- The turning tide in India
- The United States
- Latin America
- 12. The Path to World War
- The approach to the abyss
- The Manchurian crisis
- The China 'incident'
- Indo-China and Indonesia between the wars
- The German problem
- Adolf Hitler
- The German revolution
- The crumbling balance of power
- Ideology's contamination of international affairs
- Towards a new German war: the Spanish Civil War
- Hitler moves beyond the German lands
- 13. The Second World War
- From Blitzkrieg to Barbarossa
- German Europe
- World war
- The conflation of wars
- Global conflict 1941-5
- The meaning of victory
- Book 5. A New World
- 14. Appearance and Reality
- Europe: amid the ruins
- The framework of recovery
- Reconstruction
- Great power realities
- Friction
- The Truman doctrine and the Marshall Plan
- 15. The Cold War Unrolls
- Roots of conflict
- The Berlin crisis and NATO
- New nations: the beginnings of decolonization
- Indian independence
- The last throes of the Chinese revolution
- Imperial realities in 1945
- Indo-China
- The running sore of the Ottoman Succession
- Cold and hot war in Asia: Korea
- Stalin's legacy
- A divided Europe in a dividing world
- 16. East Asia Reshaped
- After empire
- The Indian sub-continent
- The 'Third World'
- Indonesia
- The new China
- China's re-emergence as a world power
- The great steersman
- Resurgent Japan
- 17. Africa and the Near East: Old and New Problems
- Past history, new facts
- Pre-independence Africa
- The independence process in Black Africa
- South Africa and Rhodesia
- Disappointment and disillusion
- Arab and Jew
- The Egyptian revolution and after
- Algerian independence
- Book 6. Shifting Foundations
- 18. Changing Minds
- New ways of seeing the world
- The management of the natural world
- Power
- Communications and information technology
- The life sciences
- Medical science
- Space and the public imagination
- Promise and misgiving
- Facing new issues
- 19. New Economic and Social Worlds
- In the long run
- Europe's 'golden age'
- Eastern Europe
- World contrasts
- Changing lifestyles
- The oil crisis and after
- Structural changes
- Cultural consequences in a wealthier world
- Globalization
- 20. Authority and Its New Challengers
- A liberating century
- Dissolving certainty
- Religion in the later twentieth century
- Government, democracy and nationalism
- Challenges to the state
- Women
- The Pill
- New waves
- Women in the non-western world
- Youth
- Book 7. A Changing World Balance
- 21. The Cold War at Its Height
- After Stalin
- The second Berlin crisis
- Latin America enters world politics
- Cuba
- The aftermath in Latin America
- The changing USSR
- The changing United States
- 22. Vietnam and After
- The American entanglement
- The changing Asian context
- Oil and the Israel problem
- The Iranian revolution
- Islam in international affairs
- An uneasy Latin America
- 23. The Reshaping of Europe
- Seeds of unity
- The division of Europe
- National interests
- Ostpolitik
- The path to Helsinki
- The British crisis
- Book 8. The end of an Era
- 24. A World in Evolution
- The last years of Chairman Mao
- New patterns
- Japan: the new world power
- The Indian democracy
- Africa's enduring problems
- 25. Crumbling Certainties
- Seeds of doubt
- American misgivings
- Disordered Islam
- The last phase of Cold War
- Changing eastern Europe
- Polish revolution
- The crumbling of the Soviet system
- A new Germany
- 26. Post Cold War Realities
- The Gulf War
- Persisting dangers
- The end of the Soviet Union
- A new Russia
- New European security problems
- The end of Yugoslavia
- Nationality and ethnicity in the new Europe
- European integration
- Qualified re-orientation: the United Kingdom
- Changes in China
- Tiananmen
- 27. Fin-de-siecle
- Problems of peacekeeping
- Europe after Maastricht
- A common currency
- Enlarging Europe
- A troubled Far East
- The Indian sub-continent
- The United States at the end of the century
- Pax Americana
- 28. Retrospect
- Historical importance
- The great upheavals
- The mythology of human happiness
- Mastery of the material world
- The first world civilization
- Today's political world
- Conclusion
- Appendix. The Exploration of Space
- Index