World in the Twentieth Century : From Empires to Nations

Extending from the late nineteenth century, when new Western Empires and old Asian Empires dominated vast areas of the world and ruled most of its peoples, into the early twenty-first century, when the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War appeared to herald a new era of peaceful relations among the world's nation-states, Daniel R. Brower's, The World in the Twentieth Century: From Empires to Nations, examines the cycle of creation and destruction integral to the rise and fall of modern empires and new nation-states. In the Sixth Edition, two new chapters and additional material introduced throughout the text combine to bring a new clarity to the story of global relations, violence, and the quest for national identity. Book jacket.