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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... treaty of the new century the Chinese Government recognized the right of eleven foreign Powers to establish garrisons along the land and river communications between Peking and the sea . China also agreed to pay 1901 9 THE FIRST DECADE.
... treaty with the United States under which , in return for a guarantee by Washington to safeguard the independence of the new republic , Panama ceded in perpetuity a strip of land ten miles wide , extending from the Atlantic to the ...
... treaty was signed . A war in which 58,000 Japanese and 120,000 Russian soldiers had been killed was over . Korea was recognized as a Japanese dependency , the first successful assertion of Japanese con- trol on the mainland of Asia ...
... treaty to take the side of her Austro- Hungarian ally . Faced by German pressure , the Russian Government advised Serbia to halt all anti - Austrian demonstrations and accept the Aus- trian annexation of Bosnia - Herzegovina . Serbia ...
... Treaty of Bucharest was signed , all five Balkan combatants - Bulgaria , Greece , Roumania , Montenegro and Serbia - agreed to new frontiers . The port city of Salonika , coveted by Bulgaria , was assigned to Greece . The rest of Europe ...
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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 |