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245	1	4	_aThe visual history of the modern world / _cGeneral editor: Terry Burrows.
260	0		_aLondon : _bSevenoaks, _cc2004.
300			_a599 p. : _billus. ; _c29 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
500			_aFirst published by Carlton Books Limited in 1999 under the title The Visual History of the Twentieth Century.
505			_aIntroduction -- 1900-1909 -- 1910-1919 -- 1920-1929 -- 1930-1939 -- 1940-1949 -- 1950-1959 -- 1960-1969 -- 1970-1979 -- 1980-1989 -- 1990-1999 -- 2000- -- Index -- Picture credits.
520			_aEvery 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.
650			_aTwentieth century.
650			_aTwentieth century _xPictorial works.
650			_aHistory, Modern _y20th century.
650			_aHistory, Modern _y20th century _xPictorial works.
700			_aBurrows, Terry _eeditor.
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999			_c48891 _d48891