World history indeed: a summary of the departing century by 26
scholars, most of them British or American, all of them learned and
lucid, covering culture, society and warfare as well as the
traditional historical subjects of politics, revolution and
economics. Extensive book lists give the reader a chance to pursue
further detail. Coverage runs up to very recent events; there is no
attempt to hide the century's villainies, but room is left for
hope. This is collective history at its best. (Kirkus UK)
In 1900 Queen Victoria still ruled over the British Empire, the
imperial Manchu dynasty over China, and the Romanov Tsars over
Russia. The cinema was in its infancy, with radio and television
still to be developed. The earliest cars were on the road, but air
travel was yet to come. Before antibiotics and effective vaccines
against many common diseases, death rates were high. Over the
course of the twentieth century, the human population of the world
tripled, space travel left the realms of science fiction and became
reality, two cataclysmic world wars and a host of other conflicts
were fought, the internal combustion engine replaced the horse as
the basic means of transport, and computer technology
revolutionized communications. In this ambitious book, some of the
most distinguished historians in the world survey the momentous
events and the significant themes of recent times, with a look
forward to what the future might bring.
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