Twentieth Century: The History of the World,1901 to 20000 - Softcover

Roberts, J M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140296565 ISBN 13: 9780140296563

Publisher: Penguin, 2000

Synopsis

From J. M. Roberts, one of our greatest historians, comes an engrossing one-volume history of the extraordinary century we've just lived through. Going beyond a traditional chronological narrative of events, Roberts identifies the major long-term changes that underlie them, pointing in particular to worldwide increases in life expectancy; major advances in science and technology; the radical reconfiguration of the global economy; the disappearance of empires; the decline of white hegemony; and the changing role of women.

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Review:

J M Roberts' monumental Penguin History of the World became a publishing phenomenon and sold in its hundreds of thousands. Now he has produced an equally brilliant new work, focusing solely on our own troubled and dramatic century, and it has all the breathtaking sweep and confident judgment of his previous work. Most importantly, Roberts takes a truly international view of things. The 20th century, he argues, is marked as much as anything by the decline of Europe as the world's sole arbiter and the emergence of today's cosmopolitan, global civilisation, born of decolonization, the resurgence of Islam and the vibrant, self-assured new nations of Asia and Latin America. He also examines the other two major trends of our time: the social and economic empowerment of women and the extraordinary quadrupling of the world's population, most of it in Third World countries. A challenging and exacting read.--Christopher Hart

Review:

"THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, OBJECTIVE . . . YET ACCESSIBLE HISTORY OF THE CENTURY YET PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH".-- The Economist

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0140296565
• ISBN 13: 9780140296563
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 928