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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Rees, John, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• History, Modern--20th century.
• History, Modern.
• History, Modern--1989-.
• Military history, Modern--20th century.
• Military history, Modern.
• Military history, Modern--21st century.
• Balance of power--History--20th century.
• Balance of power--History--21st century.
• World politics--20th century.
• World politics.
• World politics--1989-.
• Social history--20th century.
• Social history.
• Social history--1970-.
• Balance of power.
• History.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

• Wars and revolutions, economic crises and political conflict; these are the very stuff of modern history. This guide to the last 100 years of great power conflicts, social rebellions, strikes and protests gives us the essential history of the world in which we live. Based on the Timeline TV series, this is a fast-paced and accessible guide for those who want to know how power is exercised, by whom and for what purposes in the modern world.
• From the rise and fall of great empires in the two World Wars and the Cold War through to the 'War on Terror' and the rise of China; Timelines describes the shifts in the Imperial structure of the world and it looks at the impact of those changes upon the conflict zones of the twenty-first century, including Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran.
• Finally, Timelines looks at moments of popular resistance, from the Russian and Spanish revolutions to the fall of Apartheid in the 1990s and the ongoing socialist experiment that is Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. We live in turbulent times. These essays show us how we got here and outline the forces that are going to shape the history of the twenty-first century. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

• Based on the Timeline television series.
• "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780415691024
• 0415691028
• 9780415691031
• 0415691036
• 9780203123133
• 0203123131

OCLC:

754736115