The required text for the
course is Carter Findley and John Rothney,
Twentieth-Century World, 6th edition. [Please note
that the 5th ed. is also acceptable.]. If, for some reason, you have difficulty obtaining
this specific volume, one of the following
paperbacks is acceptable. Please check with your instructor first.
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Paul Johnson, Modern Times: The World
from the Twenties to the Nineties, Rev. ed. (New York: HarperPerennial,
1996).
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Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A
History of the World, 1914-1991 (New York: Vintage Books,
1996).
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Glen Blackburn, The West and the World
since 1945, 3rd ed. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993).
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J. A. S. Grenville, A History of the
World in the Twentieth Century, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Belknap Press,
1996).
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Daniel Brower, The World in the Twentieth
Century, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, 2000).
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Michael Adas, et al., Turbulent Passage: A
Global History of the Twentieth Century (New York: HarperCollins,
1994).
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T. E. Vadney, The World since 1945,
2nd ed. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992).
GENERAL WORKS
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Older but still useful, D. C.
Watt, E. Spencer and N. Brown, A History of the World in the Twentieth
Century (Hodder & Stoughton, 1967).
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G. Barraclough examines some
underlying forces in An Introduction to Contemporary History (Penguin,
1969).
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Two French interpretations are
M. Crouzet, L'Epoque contemporaine: a la recherche d'une civilisation
nouvelle (Presses Universitaires, 1969) and J. Bouillon, P. Sorlin
and J. Rudel, Le Monde contemporaine, 13th ed. (Bordas,
1968).
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For an introduction to the
forces shaping culture and society, see M. Biddiss, The Age of the
Masses (Penguin, 1977).
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H. S. Hughes, Contemporary
Europe: A History, 4th ed. (Prentice-Hall, 1976).
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