1. The Dawn of the Century, Michael Howard 2. Communications, Disease, and Demography, William H. McNeill 3. Understanding the Universe, Steve Weinberg 4. The Expansion of Knowledge, John Maddox 5. The Growth of a World Economy, Robert Skidelsky 6. The Growth of a Global Culture, Alan Ryan 7. The Visual Arts, Norbert Lynton 8. European Empires and Emerging Nationalism, Wm Roger Louis 9. Europe in the Age of Two World Wars, Michael Howard 10. The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, Richard Stites 11. The United States 1900-1945, Hugh Brogan 12. East Asia and the Emergence of Japan, Akira Iriye 13. The Confrontation of the Superpowers, Lawrence Freedman 14. The… United States since 1945, James Patterson 15. The Soviet Union and Beyond, Archie Brown 16. The Remaking of Europe, Anne Deighton 17. East Asia, Akira Iriye 18. China, Jonathan Spence 19. South-East Asia, Michael Leifer 20. South Asia, Judith Brown 21. North Africa and the Middle East, Roger Owen 22. Africa, Terence Ranger 23. Latin America, Alan Knight 24. The Old Commonwealth: The First Four Dominions, Peter Lyon 25. Towards an International Community? The United Nations and International Law, Adam Roberts 26. The Close of the Century, Wm Roger Louis 27. Towards the Twenty-first Century: New Problems, New Opportunities, Ralf Dahrendorf Chronology, Adolf Wood Further Reading Index