The World in the Twentieth Century

This provocative history of the twentieth century, our age, dares to take a new approach and offers compelling new perspectives. 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.