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The Penguin History Of The Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to the Present Paperback – 31 August 2000

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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.
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    Allen Lane History
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    928 pages
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    English
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    31 August 2000
  6. Dimensions
    12.95 x 5.08 x 19.81 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    9780140276312
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    978-0140276312
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A book that deserves the widest reading. (The New York Times Book Review)

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J M Roberts is the author of THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF THE WORLD and was historical adviser to the BBC television series PEOPLE'S CENTURY.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0140276319
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Press; 1st edition (31 August 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 928 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780140276312
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140276312
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.95 x 5.08 x 19.81 cm
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John Morris "J. M." Roberts CBE (14 April 1928 – 30 May 2003) was a British historian, with significant published works. From 1979 to 1985 he was vice chancellor of the University of Southampton, and from 1985 to 1994, Warden of Merton College, Oxford. He was also well known as the author and presenter of the BBC TV series The Triumph of the West (1985).

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Professor Lovejoy
5.0 out of 5 stars Penguin History of the 20th Century
Reviewed in the United States on 3 October 2014
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The author is to be congratulated for taking on a huge task: describing the events and trends of a century filled with enormous changes. He maintains an excellent balance throughout, giving just as much emphasis to familiar areas, such as Western Europe, as he does to far-away places such as Africa and Asia. In addition to reporting incidents, he also explains their significance for the century as a whole. One possible improvement would be to shorten the look-back at the 19th-century that takes up the first 20% of the book. It is not until page 175 that we finally read the much anticipated sentence that starts "As 1901 began..."
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Castiglioni Luca
5.0 out of 5 stars Un manuale completo e molto approfondito della storia del XX secolo
Reviewed in Italy on 25 April 2016
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Probabilmente il miglior manuale in lingua inglese sul XX secolo.

Si tratta di un testo ben scritto e ricco di dati, senza influenze ideologiche evidenti. Presenta in modo comprensibile le continuità e novità del XX secolo nella storia mondiale, coprendo i macro argomenti fondamentali per comprendere il presente a partire dall'inizio del '900 fino alla fine del sistema dei blocchi. Estremamente chiaro ed appagante.

E' compatibile con un manuale di livello un universitario o con un testo di alta divulgazione.

E' in lingua inglese.
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Fulk Nerra
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent survey of the century
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 November 2015
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An excellent survey of the century. Gives a fine overview from which the reader can branch out into more detailed, more specialist reading.
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Elias Ladd
5.0 out of 5 stars great book
Reviewed in the United States on 8 October 2018
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very informative
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Anna Zachariasen
5.0 out of 5 stars A historybook can be a good help to orient oneself I think the last 25 ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 May 2015
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A historybook can be a good help to orient oneself I think the last 25 years have been the most confusing,I have experienced..
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