Mastering Modern World History: 4th edition - Brossura

Lowe, Norman

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1403939829 ISBN 13: 9781403939821

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Riassunto

This book covers the major topics of modern world history in a clear and concise style. After a general introduction, themes are developed in more detail, with headings, key words, and phrases underlined. With its easy to follow cross-referencing and helpful problem-solving approach, this text is the ideal introduction to higher level study of modern world history.

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L'autore:

Norman Lowe has had many years' experience of teaching history at all levels in schools and colleges and for twenty years was head of history at Nelson and Colne Tertiary College in Lancashire. He is the author of Mastering Modern British History and Mastering Twentieth-Century Russian History, and is now a freelance writer and lecturer.

Contenuti:

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface to the Fourth Edition
PART ONE: WAR AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
The World in 1914: Outbreak of the First World War
The First World War and its Aftermath
The League of Nations
International Relations 1919-33
International Relations 1933-39
The Second World War, 1939-45
The Cold War: Problems of International Relations after the Second World War
The Spread of Communism Outside Europe and its Effects on International Relations
The United Nations Organization
The Two Europes, East and West Since 1945
Conflict in the Middle East
The New World Order and the War Against Global Terrorism
PART TWO: THE RISE OF FASCISM AND GOVERNMENTS OF THE RIGHT
Italy 1918-45: The First Appearance of Fascism
Germany 1918-45: The Weimar Republic and Hitler
Japan and Spain
PART THREE: COMMUNISM - RISE AND DECLINE
Russia and the Revolutions, 1900-24
The USSR and Stalin, 1924-53
Continuing Communism, Collapse and Aftermath, 1953-2005
China 1900-49
China since 1949: The Communists in Control
Communism in Korea and South East
PART FOUR: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The USA Before the Second World War
The USA Since 1945
PART FIVE: DE-COLONISATION AND AFTER
The End of the European Empires
Problems in Africa
PART SIX: GLOBAL PROBLEMS
The Changing World Economy Since 1900
The World's Population
Further Reading
Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1403939829
• ISBN 13: 9781403939821
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 642