"The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914"--Page 4 of cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-378) and index.
Contents:
Christopher Bayly and the making of world history -- Preface -- Introduction -- The world crisis, c.1900-1930 : Europe and the "Middle East" -- The world crisis, c.1900-1930 : Africa, Asia and beyond -- Authoritarianism and dictatorship worldwide, c.1900-1950 -- Democracies and their discontents, c.1900-1950 -- The depression : state intervention and popular resistance -- The Second World War and its consequences -- Peripheral conflicts and the end of old regimes, c.1945-1955 -- America's hegemony and colonialism's finale, mid-1950s to 1970s -- The "tipping point" : world politics and the shock of the "long 1980s" -- The expansion of human knowledge : the twentieth-century person and society -- The self and human society -- Arts, literature and entertainment : crisis and recovery -- Religion : contestation and revival -- A century of killing and a century of crime -- Internationalism and transnationalism in theory and practice -- The shadow of empire in the modern world -- The pressure of people -- Between two centuries : economic liberalisation and political fragmentation, c.1991 to 2015 -- Conclusion : periods and prophecy.
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