Twentieth Century: The History Of The World, 1901 To 2000
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Few centuries have reshaped the human story with the ferocity and speed of the twentieth, and J. M. Roberts' Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to 2000 stands as one of the most authoritative and panoramic accounts of that turbulent age. From the dying embers of Victorian imperial confidence to the bewildering complexity of the globalised world at the millennium's close, Roberts chronicles the wars, revolutions, ideological collisions, and technological transformations that defined an era of unprecedented change. With a historian's precision and a storyteller's instinct, he presents the century's defining moments — two catastrophic world wars, the rise and fall of totalitarianism, decolonisation, the Cold War, and the digital revolution — as interconnected threads in a vast and restless tapestry. Roberts writes with a commanding sweep that is both accessible and intellectually rigorous, a hallmark of his celebrated career as one of Britain's foremost popular historians. His narrative argues that the twentieth century was not merely a sequence of disasters and triumphs, but a profound and irreversible rupture in the human condition — one whose consequences continue to reverberate into our own time. Twentieth Century is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand not just where the modern world came from, but why it remains so difficult to comprehend.
Author: J. M. Roberts
Format: Hardback
Published: 1999, Viking
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Few centuries have reshaped the human story with the ferocity and speed of the twentieth, and J. M. Roberts' Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to 2000 stands as one of the most authoritative and panoramic accounts of that turbulent age. From the dying embers of Victorian imperial confidence to the bewildering complexity of the globalised world at the millennium's close, Roberts chronicles the wars, revolutions, ideological collisions, and technological transformations that defined an era of unprecedented change. With a historian's precision and a storyteller's instinct, he presents the century's defining moments — two catastrophic world wars, the rise and fall of totalitarianism, decolonisation, the Cold War, and the digital revolution — as interconnected threads in a vast and restless tapestry. Roberts writes with a commanding sweep that is both accessible and intellectually rigorous, a hallmark of his celebrated career as one of Britain's foremost popular historians. His narrative argues that the twentieth century was not merely a sequence of disasters and triumphs, but a profound and irreversible rupture in the human condition — one whose consequences continue to reverberate into our own time. Twentieth Century is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand not just where the modern world came from, but why it remains so difficult to comprehend.