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" A concise history of the modern world : "
William Woodruff
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BL
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654894
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| Main Entry
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Woodruff, William
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| Title & Author
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A concise history of the modern world : : 1500 to the present : a guide to world affairs /\ William Woodruff
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| Edition Statement
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Fourth edition, revised and updated
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xii, 430 pages :: maps ;; 22 cm
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0333971639
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: 9780333971635
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-395) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Origin of our times: an Asian-dominated world -- Europe: 1500-1914 -- Africa: 1500-1914 -- The rise of the West -- The impact of Western man -- 'White peril' in the East -- The expansion of the Russian empire -- The expansion of the American empires -- The scientific and industrial revolutions -- The Great War: 1914-18 -- 1917: Communism -- a new world religion -- Asia in the interwar years -- The Second World War: 1939-45 -- The balance of terror -- The decolonization of Africa -- Communism and its collapse int he USSR and Eastern Europe -- Latin America and the United States in the twentieth century -- Wester Europe and North America -- The resurgence of Asia -- The threat of world anarchy
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History, Modern
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909.08
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D208.W67 2002
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