Twentieth Century (Allen Lane History) - Hardcover

Roberts, J. M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713992573 ISBN 13: 9780713992571

Publisher: Allen Lane, 1999

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Review:

J.M. Roberts's monumental Penguin History of the World became a publishing phenomenon and sold in the hundreds of thousands. Now he has produced an equally brilliant new book, focusing solely on our own troubled and dramatic century, and it has all the breathtaking sweep and confident judgment of his previous work. Most important, Roberts takes a truly international view of things. The 20th century, he argues, is marked as much as anything by the decline of Europe as the world's sole arbiter and the emergence of today's cosmopolitan, global civilization, born of decolonization, the resurgence of Islam, and the vibrant, self-assured new nations of Asia and Latin America. He also examines the other two major trends of our time: the social and economic empowerment of women and the extraordinary quadrupling of the world's population, most of it in Third World countries. A challenging and exacting read, Twentieth Century is destined to be a classic. --Christopher Hart, Amazon.co.uk

About the Author:

J. M. Roberts, former warden of Merton College, is the author of numerous works of history, including the Penguin History of the World and Penguin History of Europe.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0713992573
• ISBN 13: 9780713992571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 928