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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 ...
The Western Heritage [1] is an American history textbook used for the study of Western civilization and European history. It was published in 1979, [2] and has gone through twelve editions. [3] It was written by Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, and Frank M. Turner. It soon became a "standard survey text" [4] and is published in two volumes.
In the later half of the 20th century, many US universities moved towards a more elective system. Some historians see the change as a response to social activism—the civil rights, feminist, and various other social movements saw the Core Curriculum as an inflexible way to promote the canon of "dead white males" and as a failure to acknowledge ...
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; Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453–1924; Country of My Skull; Crabgrass ...
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.
Century Book of Facts (1902) a quasi-annual one volume work Universal Manual of Ready Reference (1904) New Century Book of Facts (1909) Collier's New Encyclopedia (1902) University Encyclopaedia of Twentieth Century Knowledge (1902) Encyclopedia Americana (1902) New International Encyclopedia (1902) Teacher's and Pupil's Cyclopaedia (1902)
Thinking the Twentieth Century is a 2012 book by historians Timothy Snyder and Tony Judt. The book is based primarily on material by Judt, edited by Snyder. The book is based primarily on material by Judt, edited by Snyder.
The Annales school (French pronunciation:) is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century to stress long-term social history. It is named after its scholarly journal Annales.