The Routledge Companion to World History since 1914Routledge, 2006 M01 27 - 592 pages The Routledge Companion to World History since 1914 is an outstanding compendium of facts and figures on World History. Fully up-to-date, reliable and clear, this volume is the indispensable source of information on a thorough range of topics such as:
Thematically presented, the book covers topics relevant from the First World War to the Iraq war of 2003, and from post-colonial Africa to conflicts and movements in Southeast Asia. |
Contents
The Middle East | 85 |
Africa | 99 |
The Far East | 126 |
Australasia | 160 |
Latin America and the Caribbean | 166 |
North America | 200 |
Heads of state and selected ministers or rulers | 228 |
Principal international organizations and groupings | 261 |
World health disease and medicine | 385 |
World carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning | 391 |
Developments in human rights since 1918 | 399 |
MAPS | 503 |
Central European frontiers 191937 | 558 |
Africa in 1914 | 559 |
The chronology of African independence | 560 |
China and the Chinese revolution | 561 |
Major treaties and international agreements | 271 |
The League of Nations | 282 |
The new nations since 1914 | 290 |
Casualties in selected conflicts since 1945 | 333 |
Strategic nuclear weapons of the superpowers 196385 | 341 |
Estimated world population 19002025 | 357 |
selected countries | 364 |
selected countries | 371 |
selected countries 19132002 | 377 |
Japanese expansion 193145 | 562 |
Southeast Asia in the 1960s | 564 |
Israel and its neighbours | 565 |
The Caribbean and Central America | 566 |
India and Pakistan after Partition 1947 | 568 |
The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe | 569 |
Index | 571 |
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