The War of the World : History's Age of Hatred (1st Edition Allen Lane Hardback)
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London, Allen Lane. 2006, First Edition. (ISBN: 0713997087) Hardcover. HB + DW, 746 pages, in VG + VG condition, minor scuffing to top edge of DW which includes a couple of small tears. As the packaged weight of this book is over 1.5kg there will be additional postage to pay, at cost. Please email for details if required. We do not charge for packaging. Very Good/Very Good.

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This is a heavy book and extra postage will be requested to all destinations outside of the United Kingdom.Good condition throughout with book and dustjacket showing only minor signs of wear.Dustjacket has some minor edge rubbing, indentations and wear.Not price clipped.There is some minor bumping and wear to the outer boards.Number Line 1.For contents please see bookseller images.

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The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, 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 brutalized 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. It is Niall Ferguson's masterpiece. Hardcover, Label: Allen Lane, Allen Lane, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2006-06-01, Studio: Allen Lane, Verkaufsrang: 3359894.

miglan, [3586573].
Niall Fergusson's most important book to date-a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing. From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the cold war, the twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence when, thanks to the advances of science and economics, most people were better off than ever before-eating better, growing taller, and living longer? Wherever one looked, the world in 1900 offered the happy prospect of ever-greater interconnection. Why, then, did global progress descend into internecine war and genocide? Drawing on a pioneering combination of history, economics, and evolutionary theory, Niall Ferguson examines what he calls the age of hatred and sets out to explain what went wrong with modernity. On a quest that takes him from the Siberian steppe to the plains of Poland, from the streets of Sarajevo to the beaches of Okinawa, Ferguson reveals an age turned upside down by economic volatility, multicultural communities torn apart by the irregularities of boom and bust, an era poisoned by the idea of irreconcilable racial differences, and a struggle between decaying old empires and predatory new states. Who won the war of the world? We tend to assume it was the West. Some even talk of the American century. But for Ferguson, the biggest upshot of twentieth-century upheaval was the decline of Western ***nce over Asia. Entgegen der Beschreibung gegeben von booklooker.de die Publikation ist nagelneu. Hardcover.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, best books [6478222], st. leonards on sea, United Kingdom.
a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era.