A history of the English-speaking peoples since 1900 / Andrew Roberts.
"Here, Andrew Roberts tells the story of those countries where English is spoken by the majority of people as their first language - Great Britain and her dependencies, the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the British West Indies and Ireland. In the course of researching this book, Roberts researched the private papers of over two hundred individuals in thirty archives on three continents."--BOOK JACKET.
Record details
- ISBN: 0297850768 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9780297850762 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0297850768
- ISBN: 9780297850762
- Physical Description: xiii, 736 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm
- Publisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006
Content descriptions
General Note: | Continues Winston Churchill's A history of the English-speaking peoples. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [649]-691) and index |
Formatted Contents Note: | Shouldering 'The white man's burden': 1900-4 -- America arrives: 1905-14 -- The first assault: Prussian militarism 1914-17 -- Peace guilt: 1918-19 -- American energy: 1920-9 -- Capitalism at Bay: 1929-31 -- The second assault: fascist agression 1931-9 -- Divided and faltering; 1939-41 -- United and conquering: 1942-4 -- Normandy to Nagasaki: 1944-5 -- The third assault: Soviet Communism 1945-9 -- Cold war perils: the 1950s -- Civis Americanus Sum: the 1960s -- The long, dismal, drawling tides: the 1970s -- Attritional victory: the 1980s -- The wasted breathing space: 1990-11 September 2001 -- The fourth assault: Islamicist terrorism and its de facto allies: 11 September 2001-15 December 2005. |
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Subject: | Great Britain > History > 20th century. English-speaking countries > History > 20th century. History, Modern > 20th century. |
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