The Oxford history of the twentieth century
By: edited by Michael Howard and Wm. Roger Louis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780192853707
Subjects: Modern History; Wereldgeschiedenis; Twentieth century; Vingtie  me sie  cle; Histoire
Other titles: History of the twentieth century.
Notes: Originally published: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-359) and index.
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: The dawn of the century / Michael Howard --; title: Demography and urbanization / William H. McNeill --; title: The great reduction: physics in the twentieth century / Steven Weinberg --; title: The expansion of knowledge / John Maddox --; title: The growth of a world economy / Robert Skidelsky --; title: The growth of a global culture / Alan Ryan --; title: The visual arts / Norbert Lynton --; title: The European Colonial Empires / Wm. Roger Louis --; title: Europe in the age of the two world wars / Michael Howard --; title: The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 1900-1945 / Richard Stites --; title: The United States, 1900-1945 / Hugh Brogan --; title: East Asia and the emergence of Japan, 1900-1945 / Akira Iriye --; title: The confrontation of the superpowers, 1945-1990 / Lawrence Freedman --; title: The United States since 1945 / James Patterson --; title: The Soviet Union and beyond / Archie Brown --; title: The Remaking of Europe / Anne Deighton.; title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: East Asia / Akira Iriye --; title: China / Jonathan Spence --; title: South-East Asia / Michael Leifer --; title: South Asia / Judith M. Brown --; title: North Africa and the Middle East / Roger Owen --; title: Africa / Terence Ranger --; title: Latin America / Alan Knight --; title: The Old Commonwealth: the first four dominions / Peter Lyon --; title: Towards a world community? the United Nations and International Law / Adam Roberts --; title: The close of the twentieth century / Wm. Roger Louis --; title: Towards the twenty-first century -- Ralf Dahrendorf.