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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450970903321

Autore

Cook Chris <1945, >

Titolo

The Routledge companion to world history since 1914 / / Chris Cook and John Stevenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-28179-X

1-280-30865-6

9786610308651

0-203-08708-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (560 p.)

Collana

Routledge companions to history

Altri autori (Persone)

StevensonJohn <1946->

CookChris <1945->

Disciplina

909.82

Soggetti

History, Modern - 20th century

World history

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Prev. ed. published under the title: Longman handbook of world history since 1914.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; Preface and Acknowledgements; I Political History; II Wars and International Affairs; III Economic and Social History; IV Biographies; V Glossary of Terms; VI Topic Bibliography; Maps; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Routledge Companion to World History since 1914 is an outstanding compendium of facts and figures on World History. Fully up-to-date, reliable and clear, this volume is the indispensable source of information on a thorough range of topics such as:the Arab-Israeli conflictanti-semitism and the Holocaustall the world's major famines and natural disasters since 1914 whether all countries of the world have a king, president, prime minister or other governanceGNP of the world's major states, year by yearbiographies of key figu