Facts About the 20th CenturyFacts About the 20th Century
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Book, 2001
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Current format, Book, 2001, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsFour chapters contain entries that, together, attempt to sum up the entire history of the world during the 20th century. Beginning with a year-by-year chronology listing major events (categorized under the topic headings of arts and entertainment, ideas, military, politics, science and technology, society, and sports), the volume moves to alphabetical compendiums of major events and movements, and biographical entries on major figures in the aforementioned categories. Finally, each country of the world is listed by its current name, and demographic and historical data are presented. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Focuses on the people, places, ideas, and events of the twentieth century and includes facts about such things as Afghanistan, Charles de Gaulle, quantum mechanics, and the founding of the Palestinian movement al-Fatah in 1958.
This ambitious work covers not just trivia but essentials, not just the familiar but also the little-known, not just the local but the global. 'It is not a record of any one country's 20th century, but of every country's, and of the great worldwide events and trends that affected them all,' promises the introduction.
Focuses on the people, places, ideas, and events of the twentieth century and includes facts about such things as Afghanistan, Charles de Gaulle, quantum mechanics, and the founding of the Palestinian movement al-Fatah in 1958.
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- New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 2001.
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