Attempts to provide a global perspective of the major changes in geopolitics and world economy during the past 500 years. The book also shows the extent to which the two World Wars undermined Europe's dominion and led to the resurgence of Asia.

Concise History Modern World: 1500 to the Present

History

WOODRUFF

World

St.Martin's Press

A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 To the Present

By investigating the major changes in world history during the past five hundred years, William Woodruff explains to what extent world forces have been responsible for shaping both the past and the present. This extraordinary book tells of the rise and fall of empires and civilizations; it recounts the growing communality and interdependence of nations; it shows how so many problems of the contemporary world are the legacy of an unprecedented era of western domination -- the end of which was hastened by the two world wars. In explaining how the world has come to be what it is, the author examines the implications surrounding the end of the cold war, the unraveling of communism in Eastern Europe, and the growing challenge of the non-western world to western superiority.

A Concise History of the Modern World

WILLIAM WOODRUFF

Palgrave

Published with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Blackwell*publishers

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