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In this ambitious book, some of the most distinguished historians in the world survey the momentous events and the significant themes of recent and contemporary times, with a look forward to what the future might bring. Early chapters take a global overview of the century as a whole, while further chapters chart the century's course region by region. This beautifully illustrated history, written by acknowledged experts, is an invaluable repository of informationand offers unparalleled insights on the century we live in.

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• 1 The Dawn of the Century
• 2 Communications, Disease, and Demography
• 3 Understanding the Universe
• 4 The Expansion of Knowledge
• 5 The Growth of a World Economy
• 6 The Growth of a Global Culture
• 7 The Visual Arts
• 8 European Empires and Emerging Nationalism
• 9 Europe in the Age of Two World Wars
• 10 The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
• 11 The United States 1900-1945
• 12 East Asia and the Emergence of Japan
• 13 The Confrontation of the Superpowers
• 14 The United States since 1945
• 15 The Soviet Union and Beyond
• 16 The Remaking of Europe
• 17 East Asia
• 18 China
• 19 South-East Asia
• 20 South Asia
• 21 North Africa and the Middle East
• 22 Africa
• 23 Latin America
• 24 The Old Commonwealth: The First Four Dominions
• 25 Towards an International Community? The United Nations and International Law
• 26 The Close of the Century
• 27 Towards the Twenty-first Century: New Problems, New Opportunities
• Chronology
• Further Reading
• Index