Author: Neil McEwan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349201510
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
This volume illustrates the strength and variety of 20th century literature, and provides a stimulating collection to which readers will return time and again.
Twentieth-Century Europe
Author:
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118651383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Twentieth-Century Europe: A Brief History presents readers with a concise and accessible survey of the most significant themes and political events that shaped European history in the 20th and 21st centuries. Features updates that include a new chapter that reviews major political and economic trends since 1989 and an extensively revised chapter that emphasizes the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since World War II Organized into brief chapters that are suitable for traditional courses or for classes in non-traditional courses that allow for additional material selected by the professor Includes the addition of a variety of supplemental materials such as chronological timelines, maps, and illustrations
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118651383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Twentieth-Century Europe: A Brief History presents readers with a concise and accessible survey of the most significant themes and political events that shaped European history in the 20th and 21st centuries. Features updates that include a new chapter that reviews major political and economic trends since 1989 and an extensively revised chapter that emphasizes the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since World War II Organized into brief chapters that are suitable for traditional courses or for classes in non-traditional courses that allow for additional material selected by the professor Includes the addition of a variety of supplemental materials such as chronological timelines, maps, and illustrations
The Twentieth-century World
Author: William R. Keylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195429022
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Through a distinctive analytical framework that focuses on the relations between countries rather than their individual histories, this second Canadian edition offers an engaging narrative account of twentieth-century world history. Thoroughly updated, this new edition provides expanded coverage of the non-Western world and includes a brand new chapter covering the first decade of the twenty-first century - exploring such recent historical events as Canada's mission in Afghanistan and theCopenhagen Climate Summit. With its impeccable scholarship and even-handed analysis, The Twentieth-Century World, second Canadian edition, is an essential resource for all students of twentieth-century history.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195429022
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Through a distinctive analytical framework that focuses on the relations between countries rather than their individual histories, this second Canadian edition offers an engaging narrative account of twentieth-century world history. Thoroughly updated, this new edition provides expanded coverage of the non-Western world and includes a brand new chapter covering the first decade of the twenty-first century - exploring such recent historical events as Canada's mission in Afghanistan and theCopenhagen Climate Summit. With its impeccable scholarship and even-handed analysis, The Twentieth-Century World, second Canadian edition, is an essential resource for all students of twentieth-century history.
History Through Art
The Usborne History of the Twentieth Century
Author: C. Hopkinson
Publisher: E.D.C. Publishing
ISBN: 9780746007013
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Provides an overview of the major events of the twentieth century.
Publisher: E.D.C. Publishing
ISBN: 9780746007013
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Provides an overview of the major events of the twentieth century.
St. Martin's Anthologies of English Literature
Author: Michael Alexander
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312044749
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312044749
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Uncertain Order
Author: Blaine Terry Browne
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
This book offers a narrative, chronological, and regionally organized approach to twentieth century world history. Throughout the presentation, three themes emphasize the importance of ideology, conflict, and technology to the century's events. Its broad and inclusive focus also pays attention to necessary detail and specifics, and incorporates relevant material into the book, to give readers an uninterrupted historical narrative. A three-part organization covers: The Decline of European Hegemony, 1900--1945; The Age of the Superpowers, 1945--1989; and The World Order in Transition, 1989--Present. Balanced coverage of major world regions includes Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the non-western world in general. A focus on both the First and Second World Wars enables readers to examine twentieth century history's theme of the primacy of conflict. For armchair historians with particular interest in the twentieth century world.
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
This book offers a narrative, chronological, and regionally organized approach to twentieth century world history. Throughout the presentation, three themes emphasize the importance of ideology, conflict, and technology to the century's events. Its broad and inclusive focus also pays attention to necessary detail and specifics, and incorporates relevant material into the book, to give readers an uninterrupted historical narrative. A three-part organization covers: The Decline of European Hegemony, 1900--1945; The Age of the Superpowers, 1945--1989; and The World Order in Transition, 1989--Present. Balanced coverage of major world regions includes Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the non-western world in general. A focus on both the First and Second World Wars enables readers to examine twentieth century history's theme of the primacy of conflict. For armchair historians with particular interest in the twentieth century world.
History of the Twentieth Century
Author: Martin Gilbert
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795337329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 723
Book Description
A chronological compilation of twentieth-century world events in one volume—from the acclaimed historian and biographer of Winston S. Churchill. The twentieth century has been one of the most unique in human history. It has seen the rise of some of humanity’s most important advances to date, as well as many of its most violent and terrifying wars. This is a condensed version of renowned historian Martin Gilbert’s masterful examination of the century’s history, offering the highlights of a three-volume work that covers more than three thousand pages. From the invention of aviation to the rise of the Internet, and from events and cataclysmic changes in Europe to those in Asia, Africa, and North America, Martin examines art, literature, war, religion, life and death, and celebration and renewal across the globe, and throughout this turbulent and astonishing century.
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795337329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 723
Book Description
A chronological compilation of twentieth-century world events in one volume—from the acclaimed historian and biographer of Winston S. Churchill. The twentieth century has been one of the most unique in human history. It has seen the rise of some of humanity’s most important advances to date, as well as many of its most violent and terrifying wars. This is a condensed version of renowned historian Martin Gilbert’s masterful examination of the century’s history, offering the highlights of a three-volume work that covers more than three thousand pages. From the invention of aviation to the rise of the Internet, and from events and cataclysmic changes in Europe to those in Asia, Africa, and North America, Martin examines art, literature, war, religion, life and death, and celebration and renewal across the globe, and throughout this turbulent and astonishing century.
The Twentieth Century
Author: Neil McEwan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349201510
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
This volume illustrates the strength and variety of 20th century literature, and provides a stimulating collection to which readers will return time and again.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349201510
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
This volume illustrates the strength and variety of 20th century literature, and provides a stimulating collection to which readers will return time and again.
The Twentieth Century
Author: Linda Ruth Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Twentieth-century Music
Author: Robert P. Morgan
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393952728
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Traces the currents that have shaped the development of music in the twentieth century and discusses the contributions of such composers as Mahler, Debussy, Stockhausen, Vaughan Williams, Bartok, and Stravinsky
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393952728
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Traces the currents that have shaped the development of music in the twentieth century and discusses the contributions of such composers as Mahler, Debussy, Stockhausen, Vaughan Williams, Bartok, and Stravinsky