The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to the Present (Allen Lane History) (Allen Lane History S)

by JMRoberts (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $4.28

  This dazzling overview of a turbulent century explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold leap in population, women's lives have been transformed, America has assumed undisputed political and cultural leadership. The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century is powerful, international and definitive.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $4.28

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $17.47

  This dazzling overview of a turbulent century explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold leap in population, women's lives have been transformed, America has assumed undisputed political and cultural leadership. The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century is powerful, international and definitive.