384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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This fascinating book provides a fully integrated explanation of the history of the modern world. Although the sheer complexity of society requires that it be studied from the standpoint of several social sciences (including Economics, Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology), using only the tools of just one of these is an obstacle to understanding the whole society, where social, economic... Read more
1. The Triumph of Europe, 2. The Global Revolution, 3. The Industrial Revolution, 4. A Century of Order and Progress, 5. The Division of Labour and Class Stuggle, 6. The Belle Époque, 7. The Second Global Revolution, 8. War and Democracy, 9. Depression and Totalitarianism, 10. A New Social Democratic Order, 11. The Communist World, 12. The Emergence of the Third World, 13. A Revitalized Capitalism, 14. A Sombre Twenty First Century?
Biography
Gabriel Tortella is Professor of Economic History at the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. He has also worked as Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and held visiting appointments at Harvard University and the University of Chicago.
