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: hard ISBN 9780333687932
Description
By investigating the major changes in world history during the past 500 years, this book explains to what extent world forces have been responsible for shaping both the past and the present. This book tells of the rise and fall of empires and civilizations, and recounts the growing communality and interdependence of nations. It shows how so many problems of the contemporary world are the legacy of an unprecedented era of western domination - the end of which was hastened by the two world wars. In explaining how the world has come to be what it is, the book examines the implications surrounding the end of the Cold War, the unravelling of communism in Eastern Europe, and the growing challenge of the non-western world to western superiority. It is the author's belief that we have reached a transitional stage in world history in which the world will no longer be shaped by the single image of western modernism, but increasingly by the image of all cultures and civilizations. With the shift of geopolitical and geoeconomic power to Asia, and with the growing worldwide influence of religious fundamentalism and revolutionary nationalism, the need for a global perspective has become acute.
Table of Contents
List of Maps Preface to the Third Edition Introduction Origin of Our Times: An Asian-Dominated World Europe: 1500-1914 Africa: 1500-1914 The Rise of the West The Impact of Western Man 'White Peril' in the East The Expansion of the Russian Empire The Expansion of the American Empires The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions The Great War: 1914-1918 1917: Communism, A New World Religion Asia in the Interwar Years The Second World War: 1939-1945 The Balance of Terror The Decolonization of Africa Communism and Its Collapse in the USSR and Eastern Europe Twentieth-Century Latin America Europe and the Western Hemisphere The Resurgence of Asia The Threat of World Anarchy Notes Select Bibliography Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780333687949
Description
By investigating the major changes in world history during the past 500 years, this book explains to what extent world forces have been responsible for shaping both the past and the present. This book tells of the rise and fall of empires and civilizations, and recounts the growing communality and interdependence of nations. It shows how so many problems of the contemporary world are the legacy of an unprecedented era of western domination - the end of which was hastened by the two world wars. In explaining how the world has come to be what it is, the book examines the implications surrounding the end of the Cold War, the unravelling of communism in Eastern Europe, and the growing challenge of the non-western world to western superiority. It is the author's belief that we have reached a transitional stage in world history in which the world will no longer be shaped by the single image of western modernism, but increasingly by the image of all cultures and civilizations. With the shift of geopolitical and geoeconomic power to Asia, and with the growing worldwide influence of religious fundamentalism and revolutionary nationalism, the need for a global perspective has become acute.
Table of Contents
List of Maps - Preface to the Third Edition - Introduction - Origin of Our Times: An Asian-Dominated World - Europe: 1500-1914 - Africa: 1500-1914 - The Rise of the West - The Impact of Western Man - 'White Peril' in the East - The Expansion of the Russian Empire - The Expansion of the American Empires - The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions - The Great War: 1914-1918 - 1917: Communism, A New World Religion - Asia in the Interwar Years - The Second World War: 1939-1945 - The Balance of Terror - The Decolonization of Africa - Communism and Its Collapse in the USSR and Eastern Europe - Twentieth-Century Latin America - Europe and the Western Hemisphere - The Resurgence of Asia - The Threat of World Anarchy - Notes - Select Bibliography - Index
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