TY - BOOK AU - Johnson,Paul TI - Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties T2 - Perennial Classics SN - 9780060935504 AV - D 421 .J65 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - New York, NY PB - Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers KW - History, Modern KW - 20th century N1 - "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 ER -