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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

2006; Council on Foreign Relations; Volume: 85; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/20032152

2327-7793

G. John Ikenberry, Niall Ferguson,

Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower Astonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Niall Ferguson's numerous acclaimed works have been leading up to. In it, he grapples with perhaps the most challenging questions of modern history: Why was the twentieth century history's bloodiest by far? Why did unprecedented material progress go hand in hand with total war and genocide? His quest for new answers takes him from the walls of Nanjing to the bloody beaches of Normandy, from the economics of ethnic cleansing to the politics of imperial decline and fall. The result, as brilliantly written as it is vital, is a great historian's masterwork.