A Concise History of the Modern World
1500 to the Present
1st Edition
Published on 20. July 1993
X, 297 pages
978-1-349-13333-8 (ISBN)
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In an ever-shrinking world, the need for a global perspective in dealing with the modern world has become acute. This book attempts to provide such a perspective by investigating the major changes in geopolitics and world economy during the past 500 years. However compact, it enables us to understand the present unravelling of Communism and the growing challenge from Asia to Western Superiority. It is shown that in so many ways the problems of the contemporary world spring from the unprecedented era of western domination, which the non-western world is now trying to unlive.
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WILLIAM WOODRUFF is Graduate Research Professor (Emeritus) in Economic History at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Woodruff's books
include Impact of Western Man, America's Impact on the World , The Struggle for World Power , The Emergence of an International Economy and a best-selling memoir The Road to Nab End . His writings have been widely translated.
include Impact of Western Man, America's Impact on the World , The Struggle for World Power , The Emergence of an International Economy and a best-selling memoir The Road to Nab End . His writings have been widely translated.
Content
List of Maps - Preface - Origin of Our Times: An Asian-Dominated World - The Rise of the West - The Impact of Western Man - The Expansion of the Russian Empire - The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions - The Expansion of the American Empires - The Great War: 1914-1918 - 1917: Communism: A New World Religion - 'White Peril' in the East: The Response of China and Japan - The Second World War: 1939-1945 - The Balance of Terror - The Resurgence of Asia - The Decolonization of Africa - Twentieth Century Latin America - Epilogue: The Threat of World Anarchy - Select Bibliography - Notes - Index
