modern history

A collection of essays in which British historian Niall Ferguson and his colleagues speculate upon nine questions of how history might have been altered if circumstances had been different--for instance, if there had been no American Revolution, and if President Kennedy had survived the assassination attempt.

A history of the twentieth-century, examining the major themes that have characterized world systems over the course of one hundred years, including social and economic factors, international issues, and domestic politics.

Examines the political and scientific developments of the Enlightenment period between 1600 and 1800, and contains primary documents that describe the slave trade, the Ottoman Empire, the scientific revolution, and more.

Discusses many of the influential people, events, and cultural developments of the 1990s.

Photographs and text provide a historical overview of important world, national, and cultural developments of the 1920s, discussing prohibition of alcohol, the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb, Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, and more. Includes a chronology.

Discusses major events and people from 2000 to 2009, covering politics, economics, celebrities, and the environment.

Selections from diaries, memoirs, letters, and newspaper reports chronicle major events in the twentieth century such as the sinking of the Titanic, the Great Train Robbery, the landing on the moon, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

A collection of illustrated maps and detailed information about countries, conflicts, and people around the world from 1800 to the present.

Contains seventy-nine alphabetically-arranged entries that provide comprehensive accounts of political revolutions around the world from 1750 to the present; and includes thematic essays covering topics such as the American and French Revolutions, colonialism, human rights, terrorism, and counterrevolution.