World In The Twentieth Century

From the vantage point of the 21st century, this short history looks back to the age of extremes. Jeremy Black goes beyond the two world wars to focus on the great themes of the 20th century: the crisis of the earth's environment, religion, fundamentalism and politics. THE WORLD IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY `A stimulating review of the hundred years which saw the greatest changes in the world’s history. Jostling with the huge political changes are like expectancy, hunger, travel, urbanisation, ethnicity, fanaticism, stem cell research, pollution, and globalisation. To face the challenges of the future we must understand the changes of the past and this book by Jeremy Black makes you reflect, think reconsider, appreciate and understand.’ Rt Hon Lord Baker of Dorking "As one would expect from Jeremy Black, this is a masterly, synoptic study - global in reach; cultural, social, economic and political in scope; an example of the historian as renaissance man of letters." Oliver Letwin This provocative history of the twentieth century, our age, dares to take a new approach. Eshewing the standard political history of the West, Jeremy Black points up the deeper issues of the century and those which will surely determine our path in the twenty first: belief, race, gender, technology and the environment. At the same time, there is a determined engagement with other continents, especially Asia and Africa. At this crucial turning point in history, the compelling new perspectives offered by `The World in the Twentieth Century’ could not be more topical. Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of numerous books including `War’ (2000) `The Atlas of World History’ (1999) `A History of the British Isles’ (1997).