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Johnson describes world history beginning with the aftermath of World War I, and ending with the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.. In the first part of the book, Johnson deals mainly with the shaping of the Soviet Union in the first decades after World War I, the collapse of democracy in Central Europe due to the rise of Fascism and National Socialism, the causes that led to World War ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Thinking the Twentieth Century is a 2012 book by historians ... It presents Judt's view on the history of ...
A History of the World in the 20th Century is a history textbook by J. A. S. Grenville, first published in 1994. It is followed by A History of the World from the 20th to the 21st Century, which has reached its 5th edition, [1] and is commonly used in International Baccalaureate 20th Century World History classes.
The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought is a book on Modernism by the historian William Everdell, published in 1997 by the University of Chicago Press. A New York Times Notable Book of 1997, and included by the New York Public Library on its list of "25 Books to Remember from 1997", The First Moderns suggests ...
May 31: Establishment of 20th Century Fox. March 21: Reza Shah of Iran asks the international community to formally adopt the name "Iran" to refer to the country, instead of the name "Persia". June 12: Chaco War ends. September 15: Enactment of the Nuremberg racial laws. October 3: The Second Italo-Ethiopian War begins and goes until February 1937.
The Cartoon History of the Universe; The Celts: First Masters of Europe; Century (1999 book) The Century for Young People; China's Red Army Marches; Chronicle of the 20th Century; The Civil War in the United States; The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World; The Collapse of the Third Republic; The Commoners' New Forest
A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century is a 1966 book on the history of moral philosophy by the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. It is the first of a series of books by MacIntyre on the history and development of ethics. [1]
It is a history of human thought covering over 5,000 years of philosophy, learning, and belief systems that surveys the key historical trends and breakthroughs connecting the globalizing human landscape of the 20th century all the way back to the scattered roots of human civilization in India, Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Greece, and Rome. [1] [2 ...