This [text] explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage "European civil war" and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold lead in population, women's lives have been transformed, Ameri…
This [text] explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage "European civil war" and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold lead in population, women's lives have been transformed, Ameri…
[This book] surveys the continent when it was at the apogee of its power. In these sixty-five years Europe's political and economic domination of the globe came to a climax and then crumbled. Europe's internal divisions and failure to solve internal problems brought it twice to …
This text is a bestselling introduction to the period 1880-1945. Social, economic and cultural history are integrated within a firm political framework.
"Europe 1880-1945 surveys the continent when it was at the apogee of its power. In these sixty-five years Europe's political and economic domination of the globe came to a climax and then crumbled. Europe's internal divisions and failure to solve internal problems brought it twi…
Chronologically discusses the events of history beginning with the evolution of man and ending with the restructuring of Western Europe in 1993.
Chronologically discusses the events of history beginning with the evolution of man and ending with the restructuring of Western Europe in 1993.
"The New Penguin History of the World covers the history of our planet from our origins in the African savannah to the state of the world in 2007. Tracing the developments of different civilizations through the ages, it examines the periods of turbulence and change, internationa…