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- catalog abstract ""This history of the twentieth century, our age, dares to take a new approach. Eschewing the standard political history of the West, Jeremy Black points up the deeper issues of the century and those which will surely determine our path in the twenty-first: belief, race, gender, technology and the environment. At the same time, there is a determined engagement with other continents, especially Asia and Africa. At this crucial turning point in history, the compelling new perspectives offered by The World in the Twentieth Century could not be more topical."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12553304.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""This history of the twentieth century, our age, dares to take a new approach. Eschewing the standard political history of the West, Jeremy Black points up the deeper issues of the century and those which will surely determine our path in the twenty-first: belief, race, gender, technology and the environment. At the same time, there is a determined engagement with other continents, especially Asia and Africa. At this crucial turning point in history, the compelling new perspectives offered by The World in the Twentieth Century could not be more topical."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-246) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Whose World History? -- 1. Dominion Over Every Living Thing: Challenging the Earth -- 2. The Crowded World: Resources and Pressures -- 3. Concrete and Steel: The Human Environment -- 4. The Shifting Kaleidoscope: Social Change -- 5. Economic Worlds -- 6. Prometheus Unbound: Machines and Goods -- 7. Human Or Divine?: Ideas and Beliefs -- 8. World in Flames: Politics and War 1900-1950 -- 9. Fall of Empires: Politics and War 1950-2000 -- 10. Conclusions.".
- catalog extent "xxii, 252 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0582472849".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Harlow ; New York : Longman,".
- catalog subject "909.82 21".
- catalog subject "D421 .B498 2002".
- catalog subject "History, Modern 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Whose World History? -- 1. Dominion Over Every Living Thing: Challenging the Earth -- 2. The Crowded World: Resources and Pressures -- 3. Concrete and Steel: The Human Environment -- 4. The Shifting Kaleidoscope: Social Change -- 5. Economic Worlds -- 6. Prometheus Unbound: Machines and Goods -- 7. Human Or Divine?: Ideas and Beliefs -- 8. World in Flames: Politics and War 1900-1950 -- 9. Fall of Empires: Politics and War 1950-2000 -- 10. Conclusions.".
- catalog title "The world in the twentieth century / Jeremy Black.".
- catalog type "text".