Twentieth Century - The History of the World, 1901 - 2000

One of our greatest contemporary historians greets the millennium with an authoritative and engrossing survey of the twentieth century.

Twentieth Century places a chronological narrative of events in the context of the long-term changes that colored them. Among these are worldwide increases in life expectancy; major strides in science and technology; the radical reconfiguration of the global economy; vanished empires, shrunken white hegemony, and reassessment of "western" civilization; and the ever-evolving role of women.