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A short history of the twentieth century /
"The historian John Lukacs offers a concise history of the twentieth century--its two world wars and cold war, its nations and leaders. The great themes woven through this spirited narrative are inseparable from the author's own intellectual preoccupations: the fading of liberalism, the ri...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- ""Contents ""; ""1. “God Writes Straight with Crooked Lines�""; ""2. “Now We Have Only Peoples� Wars�""; ""3. “National Self-Determination�""; ""4. “Cossacks! Brethren!�""; ""5. No Nostalgia for the “World of Yesterday�""; ""6. South of the Border and Across the Pacific""; ""7. “Middle Class� Is Not “Bourgeois�""; ""8. “I Was a Nationalist, but I Was Not a Patriot�""; ""9. The Wave of the Future""; ""10. “I Hope It Is Not Too Late�""; ""11. To Subdue and Conquer Germany and Japan""; ""12. The Division of Europe Almost Complete""
- ""13. The Brave Harry Truman""""14. American Nationalism, American Benevolence""; ""15. “Europe, � and the End of the Cold War""; ""16. “Great Leap Forward�""; ""17. The Limitations of Human Knowledge""; ""Index""