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A Concise History of the Modern World

1500 to the Present: A Guide to World Affairs

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  • © 2002
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  1. William Woodruff

    1. University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 1-7

  3. Origin of our Times: an Asian-dominated World

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 8-22

  4. Europe: 1500–1914

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 23-43

  5. Africa: 1500–1914

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 44-53

  6. The Rise of the West

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 54-62

  7. The Impact of Western Man

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 63-80

  8. ‘White Peril’ in the East

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 81-98

  9. The Expansion of the Russian Empire

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 99-112

  10. The Expansion of the American Empires

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 113-135

  11. The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 136-152

  12. The Great War: 1914–18

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 153-171

  13. 1917: Communism — a New World Religion

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 172-182

  14. Asia in the Interwar Years

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 183-202

  15. The Second World War: 1939–45

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 203-218

  16. The Balance of Terror

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 219-227

  17. The Decolonization of Africa

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 228-240

  18. Communism and its Collapse in the USSR and Eastern Europe

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 241-257

  19. Latin America and the United States in the Twentieth Century

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 258-275

  20. Western Europe and North America

    • William Woodruff
    Pages 276-296
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About this book

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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  • University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

    William Woodruff

About the author

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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