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Ponting has a fine eye for historical trends; he groups his discussions in sweeping chapters bearing titles such as "Revolution," "Repression," and "Globalization." Skipping about from theme to theme, the narrative is not strictly chronological--and thus sometimes a challenge to follow. But Ponting has an admirably clear style and a knack for storytelling with appropriate (and sometimes unpleasant) detail as he moves from war to war, atrocity to atrocity. Ponting's look ahead to the next millennium, with which he closes his volume, is both fascinating and sobering. "Given the way the world evolved in the twentieth century and the distribution of economic and political power at the end of the century," he writes, "it seems likely that, as in the past, the world will, over the next few decades, continue to be characterized by progress for a minority and barbarism for the overwhelming majority." --Gregory McNamee
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