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Revision Changes

  • More analysis reflecting recent scholarship has been added, particularly in the earlier periods. Examples include a bulleted list of the reasons why and how Hitler came to power as well as sections updating post-Cold War developments around the globe and the continuing importance of science, technology, economics, political and social developments, international relations and religion and culture at the century's end.
  • Pedagogical features such as chronologies, suggested sources for additional reading, detailed maps and art program, a glossary and new marginal notes that highlight key terms and topics provide students with a better understanding of the material and add human interest and insight into our world history. New Suggested Sources have been added.
  • Further material emphasizing social, economic, cultural and women's history has been added while retaining the balanced approach offered by this diverse, multi-cultural group of historians.
  • New scholarly findings and new colorful quotes increase student interest in the material.
  • New final chapter on the start of the 21st century makes this text truly up-to-date with a review of this past century's end, as well as a discussion of the changes to come this century.
  • Chapters 11 and 13 have been combined to form one chapter entitled 'Postwar Settlements and Europe in the 1920s' while Chapter 7, 'The United States and Japan in Asia and the Pacific', has removed.
  • Various chapters have been re-titled to more accurately reflect their contents. For example, Chapter 32 is now entitled, 'Africa in the Late Years of the Cold War', and Appendix B now reads 'Wealthy Nations, Poor Nations and Military Spending in the 1980s and 1990s'.