Concise History of the Modern World 1500 To the Present A Guide to World Affairs

By investigating the major changes of world history during the past five hundred years, this book provides the necessary global perspective to understand the geopolitical and geoeconomic changes facing us today. We have reached a crucial transitional stage in world history in which the world will no longer be shaped by the single image of western modernism, but increasingly by the image of all cultures and civilizations. The need to take a world viewwhich this book provides has become acute.Woodruff, William is the author of 'Concise History of the Modern World 1500 To the Present A Guide to World Affairs', published 2002 under ISBN 9780333971635 and ISBN 0333971639.