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List of Figures and Photo Credits Series Editor’s Preface Christopher Bayly and the Remaking of Modern World History Series Editor’s Acknowledgements Preface INTRODUCTION 1 THE WORLD CRISIS, C. 1900-1930: EUROPE AND THE “MIDDLE EAST” 2 THE WORLD CRISIS, C. 1900-30: AFRICA, ASIA AND BEYOND 3 AUTHORITARIANISM AND DICTATORSHIP WORLDWIDE, C. 1900-50 4 DEMOCRACIES AND THEIR DISCONTENTS, C. 1900-50 5 THE DEPRESSION: STATE INTERVENTION AND POPULAR RESISTANCE 6 THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 7 PERIPHERAL CONFLICTS AND THE END OF OLD REGIMES, C. 1945-55 8 AMERICA’S HEGEMONY AND COLONIALISM’S FINALE, MID-1950S TO 1970S 9 THE “TIPPING POINT”: WORLD POLITICS AND THE SHOCK OF THE “LONG 1980S” 10 THE EXPANSION OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PERSON AND SOCIETY 11 THE SELF AND HUMAN SOCIETY 12 ARTS, LITERATURE AND ENTERTAINMENT: CRISIS AND RECOVERY 13 RELIGION: CONTESTATION AND REVIVAL 14 A CENTURY OF KILLING AND A CENTURY OF CRIME 15 INTERNATIONALISM AND TRANS-NATIONALISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE 16 THE SHADOW OF EMPIRE IN THE MODERN WORLD 17 THE PRESSURE OF PEOPLE 18 BETWEEN TWO CENTURIES: ECONOMIC LIBERALISATION AND POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION, C. 1991 TO 2015 CONCLUSION: PERIODS AND PROPHECY NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS