Couverture / Jaquette

A monumental and accessible global history of the second half of the twentieth century, from the end of World War Two to the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, offering readers the most complete portrait of the age available.

Note biographique

Jonathan Sperber is Curators' Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Missouri. His previous book, Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life, was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in biography.

Table des matières

• Introduction


• Part 1: The Material World


• Chapter 1: Nature


• Chapter 2: Disease


• Chapter 3: Technologies


• Part 2: Interactions


• Chapter 4: Markets


• Chapter 5: Migrations


• Chapter 6: The Powers


• Part 3: Varieties of the Social


• Chapter 7: Societies


• Chapter 8: Labor


• Chapter 9: Leisure


• Chapter 10: Consumers


• Part 4: Dreams and Nightmares


• Chapter 11: Beliefs


• Chapter 12: Murder


• Chapter 13: Utopias


• Epilogue: The Zeroes


• Conclusions


• Select Bibliography


• Index

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