A Concise History of the Modern World

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Introduction
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   Chapter 2 Origin of our Times: an Asian-dominated World
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   Chapter 3 Europe: 1500–1914
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   Chapter 4 Africa: 1500–1914
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   Chapter 5 The Rise of the West
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   Chapter 6 The Impact of Western Man
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   Chapter 7 ‘White Peril’ in the East
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   Chapter 8 The Expansion of the Russian Empire
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    Chapter 9 The Expansion of the American Empires
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    Chapter 10 The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions
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    Chapter 11 The Great War: 1914–18
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    Chapter 12 1917: Communism — a New World Religion
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    Chapter 13 Asia in the Interwar Years
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    Chapter 14 The Second World War: 1939–45
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    Chapter 15 The Balance of Terror
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    Chapter 16 The Decolonization of Africa
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    Chapter 17 Communism and its Collapse in the USSR and Eastern Europe
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    Chapter 18 Latin America and the United States in the Twentieth Century
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    Chapter 19 Western Europe and North America
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    Chapter 20 The Resurgence of Asia
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    Chapter 21 The Threat of World Anarchy