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Modern times : the world from the twenties to the nineties / Paul Johnson.
Series: Perennial classicPublisher: New York, NY : Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2001Edition: Revised edition; First Perennial Classics editionDescription: vii, 870 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780060935504
- 0060935502
- D 421 .J65 2001
Contents:
A relativist world -- The first despotic utopias -- Waiting for Hitler -- Legitimacy in decadence -- An informal theocracy, a celestial chaos -- The last Arcadia -- Degringalade -- The devils -- The high noon of aggression -- The end of old Europe -- The watershed year -- Superpower and genocide -- Peace by terror -- The Bandung generation -- Caliban's kingdoms -- Experimenting with half mankind -- The European Lazarus -- America's suicide attempt -- The collectivist seventies -- The recovery of freedom.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | D 421 .J65 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5171663 |
"This work is published in England under the title A History of the Modern World: From 1917 to the 1980s" -- Title page verso.
Previous edition: 1992.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A relativist world -- The first despotic utopias -- Waiting for Hitler -- Legitimacy in decadence -- An informal theocracy, a celestial chaos -- The last Arcadia -- Degringalade -- The devils -- The high noon of aggression -- The end of old Europe -- The watershed year -- Superpower and genocide -- Peace by terror -- The Bandung generation -- Caliban's kingdoms -- Experimenting with half mankind -- The European Lazarus -- America's suicide attempt -- The collectivist seventies -- The recovery of freedom.
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