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"This book shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century. With clarity, perspective, and cumulative impact, Professor Quigley examines the nature of that transition through two wor... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Western civilization in its world setting
- Western civilization to 1914
- The Russian empire to 1917
- The buffer fringe
- The First World War, 1914-1918
- The Versailles system and the return to "normalcy," 1919-1929
- Finance, commercial policy, and business activity, 1897-1947
- International socialism and the Soviet challenge
- Germany from Kaiser to Hitler, 1913-1945
- Britain : the background to appeasement, 1900-1939
- Changing economic patterns
- The policy of appeasement, 1931-1936
- The disruption of Europe
- World War II : the tide of aggression, 1939-1941
- World War II : the ebb of aggression, 1941-1945
- The new age
- Nuclear rivalry and the Cold War : American atomic supremacy, 1945-1950
- Nuclear rivalry and the Cold War : the race for the H-bomb, 1950-1957
- The new era, 1957-1964
- Tragedy and hope : the future in perspective.