Mastering modern world history / by Norman Lowe
By: Lowe, Norman [Author].
Material type: TextSeries: Palgrave Master Series.Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.Edition: 5th ed.Description: xx, 698p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781137483645.Subject(s): History -- World history -- 1900-1999 | History | Modern PeriodDDC classification: 909.82Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | HCC Seminar Library General Stacks | 909.82 LOM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 2017 | Available | 9817-9 |
Includes index.
PART I: WAR AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- The world in 1914: outbreak of the First World War -- The First World War and its aftermath -- The league of Nations -- International relations 1919-33 -- International relations 1933-39 -- The Second World War 1939-45 -- The Cold War: problems of international relations after the The Second World War -- The spread of communism outside Europe and its effect on International relations -- The United Nations Organization -- The two Europes, east and west since 1945 -- Conflict in the middle east -- The new world order and the war against global terrorism -- PART II: THE RICE OF FASCISM AND GOVERNMENT OFTHE RIGHT -- Italy 1918-45: the first appearance of fascism -- Germany 1918-45: the Weimar Republic and Hitler -- Japan and Spain -- PART III: COMMUNISM: RICE AND DECLINE -- Russia and the revolutions 1900-24 -- The USSR and Stalin 1924-53 -- Continuing communism, collapse and aftermath 1953 to the present -- China 1900-49 -- China since 1949, the communists in control -- Communism in Korea and South East Asia -- PART IV: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- The USA before the Second World War -- The USA since 1945 -- PART V: DECOLONIZATION AND AFTER -- The end of the European empires -- Problems of Africa -- Latin America -- PART VI: GLOBAL PROBLEMS -- The changing world economy since 1900 -- The world's population
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