The Routledge Companion to World History Since 1914

This is a revised and updated version of the Longman Handbook of World History Since 1914, first published in 1991. The compilers, Chris Cook and John Stevenson, will be familiar names to many, having produced numerous similar format reference titles in the fields of modern history and politics. Cook (formerly head of the Modern Archives Unit at the London School of Economics and also editor of Pears Cyclopedia) and Stevenson (reader in history at Worcester College, Oxford and editor of English Historical Documents) are also editors of the new Routledge Companions to History series of which this...