history, modern

Presents Mary Shelley's 1826 novel, which depicts the death of the human race by war and plague in the late twenty-first century; and includes an introduction, explanatory notes, a bibliography, and chronology.

Chronicles the history of people, politics, and economics from 1815-1830 that laid the foundations of the modern world.

Covers events, personalities, and ideas of the past six decades since the end of the First World War.

Describes the political and social changes throughout the world from 1900 to the present day.

Jane Buckingham, founder of the consulting company The Intelligence Group, draws on interviews with dozens of people in a wide range of industries to predict how American culture, government, and society will change in the future.

A historical overview of the twentieth century made up of primary and secondary source documents on the period, covering the first fourteen years, the First World War and its aftermath, totalitarianism in the 1930s, Asia's turmoil in the 1930s and '40s, the Second World War, the Cold War, and political and cultural upheavals around the world from 1960 to 2000.

Describes and evaluates the global impact of ten of the nineteenth century's most important events.