A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World HistoryHarper Collins, 2002 M12 17 - 832 páginas Martin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing technology age, taking us through World War I to the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as president of the United States and Hider as chancellor of Germany. He continues on to document wars in South Africa, China, Ethiopia, Spain, Korea, Vietnam, and Bosnia, as well as apartheid, the arms race, the moon landing, and the beginnings of the computer age, while interspersing the influence of art, literature, music, and religion throughout this vivid work. A rich, textured look at war, celebration, suffering, life, death, and renewal in the century gone by, this volume is nothing less than extraordinary. |
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... Polish population in those parts of East Prussia which at the end of the eighteenth century had been part of the Polish sovereign lands par- titioned by Germany , Austria and Russia , was also a cause of internal dissent . In December ...
... Polish subjects remained tense . In March 1902 more than twenty Polish students who were studying in Berlin were accused of political agitation and expelled from Prussia . A month later the Prussian Government issued a decree limiting ...
... Polish and Lithu- anian provinces of the empire . It too favoured a revolutionary solution to redress the widespread peasant poverty and the harsh conditions in so many factories . A third Russian revolutionary party , founded in 1902 ...
... Polish provinces of Russia , unarmed processions , mostly of working men , were attacked by Russian troops , and many marchers were killed . In Finland resolutions were passed demanding the aboli- tion of the dictatorship and censorship ...
... Polish Parliament and the restoration of the Polish language in all local government business . There was a strike of postmen and telegraphists throughout the empire . The Tsar issued a new scale of heavy penalties for those who incited ...
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53 | |
80 | |
Aftermath of Armageddon 191925 | 112 |
5 | 117 |
Between Two Storms 192632 | 162 |
Towards the Abyss 193339 | 215 |
Second World War 193945 | 264 |
Recovery and Relapse 194656 | 320 |
Maps | 679 |
Index | 707 |
vii | 726 |
80 | 728 |
112 | 731 |
162 | 743 |
215 | 752 |
264 | 759 |
Hopes Raised Hopes Dashed 195767 | 399 |
Challenges of Modernity 196879 | 468 |
Renewed Expectations 198089 | 543 |
12 | 549 |
Brave New World 199099 | 608 |
320 | 765 |
399 | 767 |
468 | 768 |
608 | 769 |