The War of the World - History's Age of Hatred

Informationen zum Autor Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His most recent book is The Square and the Tower. Klappentext The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalising, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalised in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies between the outbreak of the First World War and the end of the Cold War. What went wrong? How did we do this to ourselves? THE WAR OF THE WORLD comes up with compelling, fascinating answers. Zusammenfassung The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilization at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalized and wealthy. What turned it into a bloodbath? This title reveals the story of history's most savage century as a continual war that raged for 100 years. He reveals how economic boom-and-bust, decaying empires and, more.

Product details

• Authors: Niall Ferguson
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.03.2009
• EAN: 9780141013824
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101382-4
• No. of pages: 741
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Zwanzigstes Jahrhundert, Krieg, HISTORY / World, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Modern warfare