TY  - BOOK
AU  - Palmer,R.R.
AU  - Colton,Joel
TI  - A history of the modern world
SN  - 0394335961
AV  - D209 .P26 1984
U1  - 909.08 19
PY  - 1984///
CY  - New York
PB  - Knopf
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - fast
KW  - Wereldgeschiedenis
KW  - gtt
KW  - Eur�opa
KW  - t�ort�enet
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 968-1074) and index; The rise of Europe -- The upheaval in Christendom, 1300-1560 -- Economic renewal and wars of religion, 1560-1648 -- The establishment of West-European leadership -- The transformation of Eastern Europe, 1648-1740 -- The struggle for wealth and empire -- The scientific view of the world -- The age of Enlightenment -- The French revolution -- Napoleonic Europe -- Reaction versus progress, 1815-1848 -- Revolution and the reimposition of order, 1848-1870 -- The consolidation of large nation-states, 1859-1871 -- European civilization, 1871-1914 -- Europe's world supremacy -- The first World War -- The Russian revolution and the Soviet Union -- The apparent victory of democracy -- Democracy and dictatorship -- The second World War -- The contemporary age: Cold War, communism, and colonial revolution -- The contemporary age: crises and coexistence
ER  -