history, modern

Chronicles the history and politics of both World War I and II, including events leading to both wars, trench warfare, and liberation.

Year-to-year chronology of the twentieth century, from 1900 through 1994, looking at the key people and events in the four general areas of politics and war; science, technology, and medicine; arts and literature; and social, economic, and everyday life.

Examines twenty-first-century strains on relations in the West as Europe continues its opposition towards American foreign and economic policies and discusses the causes and implications of the rift maintaining that only by working together can the problems be adequately addressed.

"COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come? Lenin once said, "There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen." This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold. Written in the form of ten "lessons," covering topics from natural and biological risks to the rise of "digital life" to an emerging bipolar world order, Zakaria helps readers to begin thinking beyond the immediate effects of COVID-19. Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World speaks to past, present, and future, and, while urgent and timely, is sure to become an enduring reflection on life in the early twenty-first century"--.

Contains 388 chronologically arranged entries that provide accounts of some of modern history's greatest scandals in the areas of politics and government, business and finance, education, religion, science, sports, entertainment, literature, and the arts; covering events from 1904 to 2008, with geographical, category, personages, and subject indexes.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that profile fifty men and women who were significant to the Cold War, a period dominated by hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union, and includes a time line of events from 1939 to 1992.

Contains chronologically arranged essays on events from 1971-1975, and includes historical maps, photographs, time lines, illustrations, a keyword list of contents, and a list of maps, tables, and sidebars.

Contains essays that provide information about significant nineteenth-century events, arranged chronologically from 1801 to 1835, with historical maps, quotations from primary source documents, lists and time lines, illustrations, and other reference aids.