The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century

Michael Howard was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford before becoming Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. His books include War in European History (OUP, 1976), Clausewitz (OUP, 1983), and The Lessons of History (OUP, 1991). Wm. Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin and an Associate Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He is Editor-in-Chief of the 5-volume Oxford History of the British Empire, and author of Imperialism at Bay (Clarendon Press, 1977), The British Empire in the Middle East (Clarendon Press, 1984), and Churchill (OUP, 1993).

• 1. The Dawn of the Century ; 2. Communications, Disease, and Demography ; 3. Understanding the Universe ; 4. The Expansion of Knowledge ; 5. The Growth of a World Economy ; 6. The Growth of a Global Culture ; 7. The Visual Arts ; 8. European Empires and Emerging Nationalism ; 9. Europe in the Age of Two World Wars ; 10. The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union ; 11. The United States 1900-1945 ; 12. East Asia and the Emergence of Japan ; 13. The Confrontation of the Superpowers ; 14. The United States since 1945 ; 15. The Soviet Union and Beyond ; 16. The Remaking of Europe ; 17. East Asia ; 18. China ; 19. South-East Asia ; 20. South Asia ; 21. North Africa and the Middle East ; 22. Africa ; 23. Latin America ; 24. The Old Commonwealth: The First Four Dominions ; 25. Towards an International Community? The United Nations and International Law ; 26. The Close of the Century ; 27. Towards the Twenty-first Century: New Problems, New Opportunities ; Chronology ; Further Reading ; Index

splendid, edited by two distinguished historians who have assembled a team of over 20 scholars outstanding in their comprehensive precision and clarity ... this book is a solid, readable and reliable guide to the past century. Most readers will be pleased, and often surprised, by the skill with which its complex events have been set in their context.