A History of the Modern World, Volume 2, with PowerWeb - Brossura

Palmer, R. R.; Colton, Joel; Kramer Professor, Lloyd

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ISBN 10: 0073255033 ISBN 13: 9780073255033

Casa editrice: McGraw Hill, 2006

Riassunto

A History of the Modern World is a careful, well-written narrative of major events from the late Middle Ages to the political and religious conflicts at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It offers a wide-ranging survey that helps readers understand both the complexities of great events (e.g., the French Revolution, the First World War, or the collapse of great imperial systems) and the importance of historical analysis. It also provides a careful summary of the modern political changes that have affected the social and cultural development of all modern cultures.

Throughout the book's lifetime, A History of the Modern World has been hailed as an elegantly written historical narrative, filled with analysis and balanced historical insights as well as its traditional attention to the processes of historical change, conflict, and political transformations. The tenth edition has been updated to include the clear maps, the survey of global economic connections, the chronologies, the illustrations, and the up-to-date bibliographies that today's students need and expect.

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L'autore:

R.R. Palmer received his B.A. from the University of Chicago, his PhD from Cornell University, and honorary degrees from the Universities of Uppsala and Toulouse. He taught at Princeton University, Washington University, and Yale University before retiring in 1977. The author of Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution, Age of the Democratic Revolution, The World of the French Revolution, and The Improvement of Humanity: Education and the French Revolution, Palmer has also translated such books as Georges Lefebvre's, Coming of the French Revolution, Louis Bergeron's, France Under Napoleon, and Jean-Paul Bertaud's, Army of the French Revolution and has served as editor and translator of From Jacobin to Liberal: Marc-Antoine Jullian, 1775-1848. He served as President of the American Historical Association in 1970 and has been the recipient of the Bancroft Prize, 1960 and The Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for History in Rome, 1990.

Contenuti:

List of Illustrations

List of Chronologies, Maps, Charts, and Tables

Preface

Geography and History

Chapter 11INDUSTRIES, IDEAS, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR REFORM, 1815–1848

Chapter 12REVOLUTIONS AND THE REIMPOSITION OF ORDER, 1848–1870

Chapter 13THE GLOBAL CONSOLIDATION OF LARGE NATION-STATES, 1859–1871

Chapter 14EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION, 1871–1914: ECONOMY AND POLITICS

Chapter 15EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION, 1871–1914: SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Chapter 16EUROPE’S WORLD SUPREMACY, 1871–1914

Chapter 17THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Chapter 18THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE SOVIET UNION

Chapter 19DEMOCRACY, ANTI-IMPERIALISM, AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Chapter 20DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIP IN THE 1930s

Chapter 21THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Chapter 22THE COLD WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Chapter 23POSTCOLONIAL NATIONS IN ASIA ANDLATIN AMERICA

Chapter 24EMPIRES INTO NATIONS: AFRICA AND THEMIDDLE EAST AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Chapter 25COEXISTENCE, CONFRONTATION, AND THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY

Chapter 26THE INTERNATIONAL REVOLT AGAINST SOVIET COMMUNISM

Chapter 27THE CHANGING MODERN WORLD

Appendix Rulers and Regimes

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

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• Editore: McGraw Hill
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0073255033
• ISBN 13: 9780073255033
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 1212