Modern times
Subtitle: the world from the twenties to the nineties
By: Paul Johnson.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Perennial Classics
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 870
Subjects: History, Modern -- 20th century.
Other titles: A history of the modern world : from 1971 to the 1980's.
Notes: "This work is published in England under the title: A history of the modern world: from 1917 to the 1980's"--T.p. verso.

Originally published: New York : HarperPerrenial, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (785-840) and index.
Table of contents: title: A relativist world; title: The first despotic utopias; title: Waiting for Hitler; title: Legitimacy in decadence; title: An informal theocracy, a celestial chaos; title: The last Arcadia; title: Degringalade; title: The devils; title: The high noon of aggression; title: The end of old Europe; title: The watershed year; title: Superpower and genocide; title: Peace by terror; title: The Bandung generation; title: Caliban's kingdoms; title: Experimenting with half mankind; title: The European Lazarus; title: America's suicide attempt; title: The collectivist seventies; title: The recovery of freedom.