Timelines
Subtitle: essays in the history of the modern world
By: John Rees
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780415691024; 9780415691031; 9780203123133
Subjects: Modern Military history; World politics; Social history; Balance of power; Modern History; History
Other titles: Timeline (Television program)
Notes: Based on the Timeline television series.

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The shape of the modern world; title: section I: The rise and fall of Great Powers; title: The First World War; title: The Revolutions that made Russia; title: The Consequences of the First World War; title: The Rise of Fascism; title: The Spanish Civil War; title: The real history of the Second World War; title: The Cold War; title: China; title: Obama and US Power; title: section II: Empire and after; title: Afghanistan; title: Iran; title: Palestine; title: Vietnam; title: Iraq; title: Ireland; title: Immigration; title: section III: The rulers and the ruled; title: Recessions and resistance; title: The Civil Rights Movement; title: 1968 : the year that changed the world; title: South Africa's struggle for freedom; title: Thatcherism; title: The Revolutions of 1989; title: Hugo Chavez's Revolution; title: Student revolts; title: Conclusion: The first decade of the new millennium.