Key Features:The most up-to-date and comprehensive paperback dictionary of Contemporary World History available
- Sales of 1,500 copies a year (formerly the Dictionary of Twentieth Century World History)
- International coverage with detailed entries for every country in the world
- Over 2,600 entries including many new entries on America and the Middle East
- Subject entries on organizations, treaties, religious and political movements, as well as key incidents, places, and battles
- Biographical entries on political and military leaders, and leading thinkers
- 'an indispensable reference book for all interested in current affairs' Day by Day
Description:
Find out the facts behind the headlines with this recently updated and revised dictionary of contemporary world history (here reissued into the OPR rebrand). Covering recent events including many new entries on America and the Middle East, this authoritative dictionary provides both fact and analysis of figures and events of the modern world from 1900 to the present day.
Featuring biographical entries on major historical figures, political and military leaders, and leading thinkers who influenced events. Subject entries cover international organizations, treaties, religious and political movements, as well as key incidents, places, and battles. Over 2,600 entries all written by an authority in the field make this a comprehensive reference work that will prove invaluable to a range of readers from students of history, politics, and international relations, to anyone with an interest in the modern world.
PREVIOUS EDITION: 0-19-860484-X
- Sales of 1,500 copies a year (formerly the Dictionary of Twentieth Century World History)
- International coverage with detailed entries for every country in the world
- Over 2,600 entries including many new entries on America and the Middle East
- Subject entries on organizations, treaties, religious and political movements, as well as key incidents, places, and battles
- Biographical entries on political and military leaders, and leading thinkers
- 'an indispensable reference book for all interested in current affairs' Day by Day
Description:
Find out the facts behind the headlines with this recently updated and revised dictionary of contemporary world history (here reissued into the OPR rebrand). Covering recent events including many new entries on America and the Middle East, this authoritative dictionary provides both fact and analysis of figures and events of the modern world from 1900 to the present day.
Featuring biographical entries on major historical figures, political and military leaders, and leading thinkers who influenced events. Subject entries cover international organizations, treaties, religious and political movements, as well as key incidents, places, and battles. Over 2,600 entries all written by an authority in the field make this a comprehensive reference work that will prove invaluable to a range of readers from students of history, politics, and international relations, to anyone with an interest in the modern world.
PREVIOUS EDITION: 0-19-860484-X