Twentieth-century world history
Subtitle: a Canadian perspective
By: William J. Duiker, Bessma Momani
Contributors: Momani, Bessma, 1973-
Edition: 1st Canadian ed.
Publisher: Thomson Nelson
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780176251543
Subjects: Modern History; Textbooks; World politics; Histoire; Manuels d'enseignement supérieur; Politique mondiale
Other titles: World history
Description: Chronicles the key events in the twentieth-century from a Canadian focus, while seeking to throw light on some of the underlying issues that have shaped the times, with emphasis to better portray non-Western history.--
Notes: 1 folded map, facing cover, p. [2].

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [297]-303.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: I. New world in the making. The changing social and political order ; The high tide of imperialism in the non-Western world; title: II. Cultures in collision. War and revolution : World War I and its aftermath ; Nationalism, revolution, and dictatorship : Africa, Asia, and Latin America from 1919 to 1939 ; The crisis deepens : the outbreak of World War II; title: III. Across the ideological divide. In the grip of the Cold War : the breakdown of the Yalta Agreement ; The rise and fall of communism in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe ; Post-war Europe : on the path to unity? ; Post-war United States : the rise of a hegemon ; Canada : the rise of a middle power ; China, Taiwan, and the "Little tigers"; title: IV. Third world rising. Emerging Africa ; Carving up the Middle East ; The emergence of independent states from South to East Asia ; Latin American dictatorships and emerging democracies; title: Beginning a new millennium. Constructing a new world order.