World 2.0: A History from Enlightenment to Terrorism and Beyond

Decisive Events in Modern History Since 1776
World 2.0: A History from Enlightenment to Terrorism and Beyond offers a compelling, refreshing new look at some of the most influential, spectacular, moving, misguided and horrible events of the past 250 years.Some of the events you’ll read about:

American Revolution

American Civil War

Women's movement

Chinese Civil War and Revolution

World War II

Building the bomb

Holocaust

Cold War

Civil Rights Movement

Chinese Cultural Revolution

9/11

World 2.0: A History stands out for combining fast-paced storytelling and vivid accounts of the situation on the ground with in-depth analysis and explanation of the reasons behind events, while also revealing intimate, surprising, even shocking connections between the past and our present.
We may be tempted to view our world as that shining city upon a hill, but we are tied to the past by a thousand strings. And with growing tensions caused by rising income inequality, persistent discrimination and ruthless religious extremism, can you really afford not to learn from it?
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