A Concise History of the Modern World

By investigating the major changes of world history during the past five hundred years, this book provides the necessary global perspective to understand the geopolitical and geoeconomic changes facing us today. We have reached a crucial transitional stage in world history in which the world will no longer be shaped by the single image of western modernism, but increasingly by the image of all cultures and civilizations. The need to take a world view - which this book provides - has become acute.

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WILLIAM WOODRUFF is Graduate Research Professor Emeritus of Economic History at the University of Florida in Gainsville. His writing have been widely translated. Woodruff's books include America's Impact on the World, The Struggle for World Power, The Emergence of an International Economy and a best-selling memoir The Road to Nab End.

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List of Maps Preface to the Fourth Edition Introduction Origin of Our Times: An Asian-Dominated World Europe: 1500-1914 Africa: 1500-1914 The Rise of the West The Impact of Western Man 'White Peril' in the East The Expansion of the Russian Empire The Expansion of the American Empires The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions The Great War: 1914-1918 1917: Communism, A New World Religion Asia in the Interwar Years The Second World War: 1939-1945 The Balance of Terror The Decolonization of Africa Communism and It's Collapse in the USSR and Eastern Europe Twentieth Century Latin America Western Europe and North America The Resurgence of Asia The Threat of World Anarchy Notes Select Bibliography Index