Routledge Companion to World History since 1914

Taylor & Francis

This is an outstanding compendium of facts and figures on World History. Fully up-to-date, reliable and clear, this volume is the indispensable and user-friendly source of information on a thorough range of topics > \nThe Routledge Companion to World History since 1914 is an outstanding compendium of facts and figures on World History. Fully up-to-date, reliable and clear, this volume is the indispensable source of information on a thorough range of topics such as: \n--the Arab-Israeli conflict \n--anti-semitism and the Holocaust \n--all the world's major famines and natural disasters since 1914\n--whether all countries of the world have a king, president, prime minister or other governance \n--GNP of the world's major states, year by year \n--biographies of key figures \n--civil rights movements \n--the Vietnam War \n--the rise of terrorism \n--globalization. \nThematically presented, the book covers topics relevant from the First World War to the Iraq war of 2003, and from post-y