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A Concise History of the Modern World

1500 to the Present

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This book investigates the major changes in world history and world economy during the past five hundred years and explains to what extent world forces have been responsible for shaping both past and present. Its underlying theme is the struggle for power in which, since the sixteenth century, the West has prevailed. Many of the problems of the contemporary world - including terrorism - are the legacy of the period of Western domination. Until the rise of the West, and its incomparable impact on every branch of human activity, the centre of the world has been in Asia. By the nineteenth century world power was firmly in the hands of the West. America's later rise to world status was prompted by the two world wars. The most prominent of the Western nations, the US is now blamed for all the excesses of an earlier colonial age.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Origin of our Times: An Asian-dominated World

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 1-18

  3. The Rise of the West

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 19-28

  4. The Impact of Western Man

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 29-44

  5. The Expansion of the Russian Empire

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 45-54

  6. The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 55-66

  7. The Expansion of the American Empires

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 67-84

  8. The Great War: 1914–1918

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 85-100

  9. 1917: Communism — A New World Religion

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 101-111

  10. “White Peril” in the East: The Response of China and Japan

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 113-130

  11. The Second World War: 1939—1945

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 131-147

  12. The Balance of Terror

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 149-160

  13. The Resurgence of Asia

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 161-183

  14. The Decolonization of Africa

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 185-200

  15. Twentieth Century Latin America

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 201-224

  16. Epilogue: The Threat of World Anarchy

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 225-242

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 243-297
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  • Book Title: A Concise History of the Modern World

  • Book Subtitle: 1500 to the Present

  • Authors: William Woodruff

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12232-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Helga Woodruff 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-12234-9Published: 01 January 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-12232-5Published: 02 December 1991

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 297

  • Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Economic History

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