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The Origins of the Twenty First Century

Tortella Casares, Gabriel  Gabriel Tortella 
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN10: 0203874579 ISBN13: 9780203874578 DDC: 330.905 LCC: HC53 Edition: (electronic bk.)150 (NL)

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The object of this book is to is to explain - rather than simply narrate - the remarkable or rather unique set of events that constitute modern history from the Industrial Revolution to the beginnings of the twenty-first century.

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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the English edition; Introduction; I The triumph of Europe; II The First World Revolution; III The Industrial Revolution; IV A century of progress and order; V Division of labor and class struggle; VI The belle ?bpoque; VII The Second World Revolution; VIII War and democracy; IX Depression and totalitarianism; X A new social and democratic order; XI The communist world; XII The rise of the Third World; XIII Renewed capitalism; XIV A somber twenty-first century?; Bibliography; Index; Electronic reproduction.Available via World Wide Web.

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