Howard: The Oxford History of the 20th Century
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Жанр : Oxford University Press
Издательство : Oxford University Press
Год издания : 2002
Аннотация:
- Edited by two pre-eminent historians — Contributions from 26 of the world's leading scholars — Early chapters take a global overview of the century as a whole, from a variety of perspectives — demographic, scientific, economic, and cultural. — An invaluable repository of information, offering unparalleled insights into the last century In 1900 Queen Victoria still ruled over the British Empire, the imperial Manchu dynasty over China, and the Romanov Tsars over Russia. The cinema was in its infancy, with radio and television still to be developed. The earliest cars were on the road, but air travel was yet to come. Before antibiotics and effective vaccines against many common diseases, death rates were high. Over the course of the twentieth century, the human population of the world tripled, space travel left the realms of science fiction and became reality, two cataclysmic world wars and a host of other conflicts were fought, the internal combustion engine replaced the horse as the basic means of transport, and computer technology revolutionized communications. In this ambitious book, some of the most distinguished historians in the world survey the momentous events and the significant themes of recent times, with a look forward to what the future might bring.