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| Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Age of Empires | |
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| Empires in Flux: The World in the Early Twentieth Century | |
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| Western Colonial Empires | |
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| Western Empires and Industrialism | |
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| The New Colonial Empires | |
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| Russia, Japan, and War for Empire | |
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| An Empire for the United States | |
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| Ancient Empires | |
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| The Fall of the Chinese Empire | |
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| The Decline of the Ottoman Empire | |
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| Western Liberalism and Nationalism | |
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| The Liberal State | |
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| Industrial Society | |
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| European Nationalism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dates Worth Remembering | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| War and Revolutions, 1914-1930 | |
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| War and Peace in Europe | |
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| The Origins of the First World War | |
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| The European War | |
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| Allied Victory | |
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| The Birth of Fascism | |
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| Mussolini and Italian Fascism | |
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| The Fascist State | |
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| Communist Dictatorship in the Soviet Union | |
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| Lenin and the Communist Revolution | |
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| The Communist State and Civil War | |
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| The Soviet Union and Its Peoples | |
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| The Challenge of Building Socialism | |
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| Revolution in Mexico | |
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| The "Revolucion" | |
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| Mexico's Social Revolution | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dates Worth Remembering | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Postwar Europe and its Empires | |
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| Europe's Postwar Revival | |
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| Peacemaking and the League of Nations | |
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| Peacemaking in Europe | |
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| The International Economy in Prosperity | |
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| The Global Depression | |
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| The Decline of Western Democracies | |
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| Western Empires in the Middle East and Africa | |
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| The Allies in the Middle East | |
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| The Problem of Palestine | |
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| Independence for Egypt | |
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| Postwar Colonial Empires in Africa | |
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| New Empires in East Asia | |
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| The New Japanese Empire | |
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| The Washington Conference | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dates Worth Remembering | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Nations Versus Empires in Asia: Turkey, India, China, 1918-1941 | |
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| The Forging of the Turkish Nation | |
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| The Fall of the Ottoman Empire | |
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| The Nation-State of Turkey | |
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| British India and Indian Nationalism | |
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| Hinduism and Islam in India | |
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| British India | |
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| India's First Steps toward Freedom | |
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| Nehru and Indian Independence | |
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| The Muslim League and the Idea of Pakistan | |
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| Civil War and Foreign War in China | |
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| The Rise of the Chinese Nationalist Party | |
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| Mao Zedong and Chinese Communism | |
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| China between Nationalists and Communists | |
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| War against Japan | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dates Worth Remembering | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Despotic Empires of the 1930s: Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Japanese Empire, 1930-1941 | |
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| Nazism and Adolf Hitler | |
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| The Nazi Party and Hitler | |
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| The Nazi Dictatorship | |
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| The Expansion of the Nazi Empire | |
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| Stalin's Soviet Union | |
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| The Stalin Revolution | |
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| Stalinist Terror and Soviet Despotism | |
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| The Soviet Empire | |
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| The Japanese Empire | |
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| Prosperity and Japanese Democracy | |
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| Depression and Japanese Militarism | |
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| Japanese Imperialism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dates Worth Remembering | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| The Last World War, 1939-1945 | |
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| The Empires of Germany and Japan | |
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| The Conquest of Europe | |
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| The United States: Between Neutrality and War | |
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| The German-Soviet War | |
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| The German Empire | |
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| The Japanese Empire | |
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| The Formation of the Grand Alliance | |
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| The United States in the Grand Alliance | |
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| The Soviet Union at War | |
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| Allied Cooperation | |
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| The Defeat of the Axis Empires | |
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| The United States and the Liberation of Western Europe | |
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| Soviet Triumph in Eastern Europe | |
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| Victory in East Asia | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dates Worth Remembering | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| The Era of Nations | |
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| The Cold War and the West | |
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| The Cold War in the West | |
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| The Making of the New Soviet Empire | |
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| Partition of Germany | |
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| Iron Curtain and Containment | |
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| Soviet Satellites and the Berlin Blockade | |
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| Containment and Military Alliances | |
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| The New Soviet Empire | |
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| The "Outer" Empire | |
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| Post-Stalinist Soviet Union | |
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| Unrest in the Soviet Empire | |
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| The Arms Race and Cuban Missile Crisis | |
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| The New Europe | |
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| The End of Western Empires | |
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| Western European Recovery | |
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| Western European Unification | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dates Worth Remembering | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Cold War and Revolutions in East Asia | |
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| The Victory of the Chinese Communists | |
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| The Decline of Nationalist China | |
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| Communist Victory in China | |
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| The Chinese People's Republic | |
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| The Korean War | |
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| Partitioned Korea | |
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| China, Stalin, and the Korean War | |
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| North and South Korea | |
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| Wars and Revolution in Indochina | |
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| The French Colonial War | |
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| North and South Vietnam | |
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| U.S. War in Vietnam | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dates Worth Remembering | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| The Resurgence of China and Japan, 1950-2000 | |
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| Revolution to Riches in Communist China | |
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| Mao Zedong and Communist Dictatorship | |
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| Revolutionary China | |
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| The Great Leap Forward | |
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| The Cultural Revolution | |
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| "To Get Rich Is Glorious" | |
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| After Communism: China in the Global Economy | |
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| Japan's Recovery from Defeat | |
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| U.S. Occupation of Japan | |
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| Japan in the Cold War | |
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| The "Economic Miracle" | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dates Worth Remembering | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| New Nations in South Asia | |
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| The New Island Republics | |
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| Independence for the Philippines | |
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| Sukarno and Indonesia | |
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| Singapore and the Global Economy | |
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| Independence for India and Pakistan | |
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| The End of British Rule | |
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| Partition of the Indian Colony | |
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| Independence and War | |
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| The Nation-States of India and Pakistan | |
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| Nehru and the New India | |
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| Democratic Socialism in India | |
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| Ethnic Diversity and Secular Democracy | |
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| War and Peace in South Asia | |
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| Nation and Islam in Pakistan | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dates Worth Remembering | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Africa and Latin America in the Third World | |
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| Africa's Liberation from Colonialism | |
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| Nationalism in Africa | |
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| Independence for African Colonies | |
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| The Triumph of Democracy in South Africa | |
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| African State-Building and Failed States | |
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| The Failure of Economic Development | |
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| Latin America in the Cold War | |
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| The Lure of Economic Independence | |
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| Populism in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile | |
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| Central America under U.S. Domination | |
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| Castro's Revolution | |
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| Democracy in Latin America | |
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| From Dictatorship to Democracy in South America | |
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| Mexico's New Democracy | |
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| Cuba, Central America, and the Yankees | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dates Worth Remembering | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Nations at War in the Middle East | |
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| Israel and the Middle East | |
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| The Struggle for Palestine | |
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| Revolution in Egypt | |
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| Nation-Building and Petroleum | |
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| Nasser and the Egyptian Nation | |
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| The Suez Canal and the 1956 War | |
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| Nasser's Socialist Reforms | |
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| Petroleum and the Middle East | |
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| War, Peace, and Islam | |
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| The Six-Day War | |
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| Egypt, Palestine, and Peace with Israel | |
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| Iran's Islamic Republic | |
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| The Oil Wars of Iraq | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dates Worth Remembering | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| The West from Cold War to European Union | |
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| The New Industrial Revolution | |
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| The Electronic Age | |
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| Western Economic Bonds | |
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| European Nations and European Union | |
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| Tinkering with the Welfare State | |
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| European Union | |
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| The Fall of the Soviet Empire | |
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| The Decline of the Soviet Union | |
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| The End of Communism | |
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| The End of the Cold War | |
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| The New Russia | |
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| Russia and Inner Asian Wars | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dates Worth Remembering | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Local Wars, Global Economy: The World after the Cold War | |
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| The Emergence of the Global Economy | |
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| Global Energy | |
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| The Global Market | |
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| Local Wars and Peacekeeping | |
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| Ethnic Conflict and War in Central Africa | |
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| The Warring Peoples of the Balkans | |
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| Internationalism and the United Nations | |
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| Terrorism and Local Wars | |
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| Islam in Afghanistan | |
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| The Local Wars of the United States | |
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| Summary | |
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| Dates Worth Remembering | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Index | |
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| Maps | |
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| Partition of Africa, 1800-1914 | |
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| Empires in Asia, 1914 | |
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| Europe at War, 1914-1918 | |
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| Europe and the Middle East after the First World War | |
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| China at War, 1911-1949 | |
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| The Formation of the Japanese Empire | |
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| The Second World War in Europe and Asia | |
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| Decolonization of Western Empires since 1945 | |
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| Korean War, 1950-1953 | |
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| War in Vietnam | |
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| Postcolonial South Asia | |
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| Contemporary Africa | |
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| Contemporary Central and South America | |
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| Israel and Its Neighbors | |
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| The Middle East and Inner Asia in 1990 | |
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| Europe, 1992 | |
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| United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, 2000 | |
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| Boxes | |
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| Highlight: The New Imperialism | |
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| Spotlight: The Empress Dowager of China | |
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| Highlight: War and Society | |
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| Spotlight: John Reed | |
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| Highlight: Petroleum and the International Economy | |
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| Spotlight: Hussein Ibn Ali | |
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| Spotlight: Mohandas Gandhi | |
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| Highlight: Colonialism and Nationalism | |
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| Highlight: Communism and Joseph Stalin | |
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| Spotlight: Admiral Yamamoto | |
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| Highlight: Internationalism | |
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| Spotlight: John Maynard Keynes | |
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| Spotlight: Eleni Gatzoyiannis | |
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| Highlight: The Cold War in Outer Space | |
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| Highlight: Containment and Anticommunism | |
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| Spotlight: Ho Chi Minh | |
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| Spotlight: The Fourteenth Dalai Lama | |
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| Highlight: Revolution and Command Economies | |
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| Spotlight: Sukarno | |
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| Highlight: New Nations and Ethnic Conflict | |
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| Spotlight: Nelson Mandela | |
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| Highlight: The Third World | |
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| Spotlight: Golda Meir | |
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| Highlight: Islam and the Nation-State | |
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| Highlight: Social Change and Women's Rights | |
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| Spotlight: Andrei Sakharov | |
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| Highlight: The Global Environment | |
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| Spotlight: Osama bin Laden | |