The Routledge Companion to World History Since 1914

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Psychology Press, 2005 - 582 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:

  • the Arab-Israeli conflict
  • anti-semitism and the Holocaust
  • all the world's major famines and natural disasters since 1914
  • whether all countries of the world have a king, president, prime minister or other governance
  • GNP of the world's major states, year by year
  • biographies of key figures
  • civil rights movements
  • the Vietnam War
  • the rise of terrorism
  • globalization.

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.

With maps, chronologies and full bibliography, this user-friendly reference work is the essential companion for students of history, politics and international relations, and for all those with an interest in world history.

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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
Strategic nuclear weapons of the superpowers 196385
341
Estimated world population 19002025
357
selected countries
364
selected countries
371
selected countries 19132002
377
World health disease and medicine
385
World carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning
391
Developments in human rights since 1918
399

Major treaties and international agreements
271
The League of Nations
282
The new nations since 1914
290
Casualties in selected conflicts since 1945
333
Maps 557
503
Index
571
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About the author (2005)

Chris Cook is head of the Modern Archives Unit at the London School of Economics. He is the author, editor, and/or compiler of many previous international political reference books, including Facts on File's Asian Political Almanac and The Making of Modern Africa. He lives in the U.K.

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