TY  - BOOK
AU  - Palmer,R.R.
AU  - Colton,Joel
TI  - A history of the modern world
SN  - 0070408262
AV  - D209 .P18
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - Histoire moderne et contemporaine
KW  - fast
KW  - Wereldgeschiedenis
KW  - gtt
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 1106-1225) and index; Plebeian uprisings in France preceding the Fronde, 1623-1648; by B.F. Porshnev --; The; English Revolution, 1640-1660; by Perez Zagorin --; The; English Revolution and the brotherhood of man; by Christopher Hill --; Emergence of the concept of revolution; by Karl Griewank --; The; world revolution of the West, 1763-1801; by R.R. Palmer --; The; French Revolution in the context of world history; by Georges Lefebvre --; The; revolution of 1848; by Henri Brunschwig --; Russia and 1848; by Isaiah Berlin --; The; background of the Russian Revolution; by E.H. Carr --; The; Bolsheviks and their rivals; by Leonard Schapiro --; The; Russian Revolution runs its course; by Robert V. Daniels
N2  - The extraordinary events of the last few years have made this eighth edition come sooner than usual after its predecessor. It is of course too early to assess the magnitude and consequences of what has happened, but we have done much new writing, rewriting, rewording, and rearrangement to present the upheavals in Eastern Europe, the disintegration fo the former Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany, the end of the Cold War, the Islamic fundamentalist movement, changes in latin america, and much else
ER  -