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Historian Fergusson provides a revolutionary reinterpretation of the modern era that resolves its central paradox: why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence, and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing. From the conflicts that presaged the First World War to the aftershocks of the Cold War, the twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence when, thanks to the advances of science and economics, most people were better off than ever before? Wherever one looked, the world in 1900 offered the happy prospect of ever-greater interconnection. Why, then, did global progress descend into internecine war and genocide? Drawing on a pioneering combination of history, economics, and evolutionary theory, Ferguson examines what he calls the age of hatred and sets out to explain what went wrong with modernity. --From publisher description.
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History, Modern Military history, War, War and civilization, World politics, Causes, Guerre, Politique mondiale, Internationales politisches System, Krieg, Weltkrieg, Weltpolitik, World politics, 20th century, Military history, War, history, Histoire, Guerres, Relations internationales, Conflits internationaux, Oorlogen, Politiek geweld, Genocide, Modern History, Krig, Historia, History, modern, 20th centuryTimes
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Krieg der Welt: Was ging schief im 20. Jahrhundert?
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The War of the World
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War of the World: History's Age of Hatred
2007, Penguin Books, Limited
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The war of the world: history's age of hatred
2006, Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books
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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
September 21, 2006, Penguin Press HC, The, Penguin Press
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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
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