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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... Labour Prime Minister . At the end of the century , a sixth Labour government was in power , and with a substan- tial parliamentary majority . In Austria - Hungary in 1900 , the internal divisions of the Habsburg Empire - with its ...
... Labour Party , which had been founded in 1898 , were convinced that the nineteenth - century Marxist analysis , whereby the collapse of the hated capitalist system could only come about through class conflict , made revolution ...
... labour unrest led to troop intervention in February 1902 in the Austrian port of Trieste . During a mass demonstration in support of an eight - hour working day , troops opened fire and twelve rioters were killed . In the Spanish city ...
... Labour Party , was particularly strong in western Russia and the 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 ...
... labour movement continued to grow , he warned , he would miss no opportunity ' of rendering the lives of the Jews intolerable ' . The pogrom at Kishinev was followed by another at Gomel , which was also officially condoned . Police and ...
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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 |