num_pages: 817
description: Originally published in 1983 and named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, this bestselling history is now revised and updated and includes a new final chapter.
  
    "Truly a distinguished work of history...Modern Times unites historical and critical consciousness. It is far from being a simple chronicle, though a vast wealth of events and personages and historical changes fill it....We can take a great deal of intellectual pleasure in this book."
    
      --Robert A. Nisbet,New York Times Book Review
    
  

language: English
title: Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties
titlecomplete: Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties
genres: Politics, Historical, Cultural, Science, European History, World History, Economics, American History, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 2759
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers