Overview
Main description
A History of the Modern World is a careful, well-written narrative of major events from the late Middle Ages to the political and religious conflicts at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It offers a wide-ranging survey that helps readers understand both the complexities of great events (e.g., the French Revolution, the First World War, or the collapse of great imperial systems) and the importance of historical analysis. It also provides a careful summary of the modern political changes that have affected the social and cultural development of all modern cultures.
Throughout the book's lifetime, A History of the Modern World has been hailed as an elegantly written historical narrative, filled with analysis and balanced historical insights as well as its traditional attention to the processes of historical change, conflict, and political transformations. The tenth edition has been updated to include the clear maps, the survey of global economic connections, the chronologies, the illustrations, and the up-to-date bibliographies that today's students need and expect.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations List of Chronologies, Maps, Charts, and Tables Preface Geography and History Chapter 11 INDUSTRIES, IDEAS, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR REFORM, 1815–1848 Chapter 12 REVOLUTIONS AND THE REIMPOSITION OF ORDER, 1848–1870 Chapter 13 THE GLOBAL CONSOLIDATION OF LARGE NATION-STATES, 1859–1871 Chapter 14 EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION, 1871–1914: ECONOMY AND POLITICS Chapter 15 EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION, 1871–1914: SOCIETY AND CULTURE Chapter 16 EUROPE’S WORLD SUPREMACY, 1871–1914 Chapter 17 THE FIRST WORLD WAR Chapter 18 THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE SOVIET UNION Chapter 19 DEMOCRACY, ANTI-IMPERIALISM, AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR Chapter 20 DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIP IN THE 1930s Chapter 21 THE SECOND WORLD WAR Chapter 22 THE COLD WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR Chapter 23 POSTCOLONIAL NATIONS IN ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA Chapter 24 EMPIRES INTO NATIONS: AFRICA AND THEMIDDLE EAST AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR Chapter 25 COEXISTENCE, CONFRONTATION, AND THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY Chapter 26 THE INTERNATIONAL REVOLT AGAINST SOVIET COMMUNISM Chapter 27 THE CHANGING MODERN WORLD Appendix Rulers and Regimes Suggestions for Further Reading Index
