The visual history of the modern world / General editor: Terry Burrows.
by Burrows, Terry [editor.].
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BookPublisher: London : Sevenoaks, c2004Description: 599 p. : illus. ; 29 cm.ISBN: 1862001391.Subject(s): Twentieth century | Twentieth century -- Pictorial works | History, Modern -- 20th century | History, Modern -- 20th century -- Pictorial works| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Includes index.
First published by Carlton Books Limited in 1999 under the title The Visual History of the Twentieth Century.
Introduction -- 1900-1909 -- 1910-1919 -- 1920-1929 -- 1930-1939 -- 1940-1949 -- 1950-1959 -- 1960-1969 -- 1970-1979 -- 1980-1989 -- 1990-1999 -- 2000- -- Index -- Picture credits.
Every major event that has had a place in molding our lives is chronicled, front the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day; from prohibition and crime in the 1920s and the Depression of the 1930s to the Cold War of the 1950s and the prosperity and 'free love' of the 1960s; from the attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the Second World War in the 1940s up to the birth of the twenty-first century, with new millennium celebrations around the globe, and the first great tragedy of that new century with the attack on the World Trade Center in New York; the technological, scientific and medical advances that transformed every aspect of our lives; the people - politicians, scientists, movie stars, icons, writers - who shaped the way we think, feel and live. In unprecedented and graphic detail, The Visual History of the Modern World is a concise and authoritative overview of this remarkable age: a time of war, peace, prosperity and progress.
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