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Timelines : a political history of the modern world / John Rees.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, ©2012.Description: xi, 212 p. : ill., maps ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 9780415691024 (hardback)
  • 9780415691031 (pbk.)
  • 9780203123133 (ebook)
Uniform titles:
  • Timeline (Television program)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 909.82 RET
Contents:
Introduction: The shape of the modern world -- section I: The rise and fall of Great Powers -- The First World War -- The Revolutions that made Russia -- The Consequences of the First World War -- The Rise of Fascism -- The Spanish Civil War -- The real history of the Second World War -- The Cold War -- China -- Obama and US Power -- section II: Empire and after -- Afghanistan -- Iran -- Palestine -- Vietnam -- Iraq -- Ireland -- Immigration -- section III: The rulers and the ruled -- Recessions and resistance -- The Civil Rights Movement -- 1968 : the year that changed the world -- South Africa's struggle for freedom -- Thatcherism -- The Revolutions of 1989 -- Hugo Chavez's Revolution -- Student revolts -- Conclusion: The first decade of the new millennium.
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Based on the Timeline television series.

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The shape of the modern world -- section I: The rise and fall of Great Powers -- The First World War -- The Revolutions that made Russia -- The Consequences of the First World War -- The Rise of Fascism -- The Spanish Civil War -- The real history of the Second World War -- The Cold War -- China -- Obama and US Power -- section II: Empire and after -- Afghanistan -- Iran -- Palestine -- Vietnam -- Iraq -- Ireland -- Immigration -- section III: The rulers and the ruled -- Recessions and resistance -- The Civil Rights Movement -- 1968 : the year that changed the world -- South Africa's struggle for freedom -- Thatcherism -- The Revolutions of 1989 -- Hugo Chavez's Revolution -- Student revolts -- Conclusion: The first decade of the new millennium.

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