A chronological compilation of twentieth-century world events in one volume-from the acclaimed historian and biographer of Winston Churchill. The twentieth century has been one of the most unique in human history. It has seen the rise of some of humanity's most important advances to date, as well as many of its most violent and terrifying wars. This is a condensed version of renowned historian Martin Gilbert's masterful examination of the century's...

"After World War II, a secular, progressive consensus defined the international order. That changed in 1979, when a series of counterrevolutions swept the globe, blazing a path for a new era. China launched reforms that would make it the economic powerhouse it is today. Pope John Paul II traveled to Poland, challenging communism in Eastern Europe by reigniting its people's suppressed Catholic faith. An Islamic revolution transformed Iran into a theocracy...

An assessment of the human condition in the twenty-first century presents data demonstrating that life quality, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise throughout the world because of the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.

Contains literary biographies of the third generation of seventeenth-century nondramatic poets - born after the start of the Thirty Years' War in 1618 and before the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660.

Essays on playwrights writing during the Elizabethan era which includes not only the years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), but loosely includes the reigns of James I and Charles I up to the closing of the theatres by the Commonwealth in 1642. Also includes essays on theatre in Shakespeare's time and the publication of English Renaissance plays.

Essays on British sixteenth-century writers of nondramatic works representative of the Tudor era. Includes articles that demonstrate several aspects of sixteenth century British nondramatic literature: innovation, writing across many genres, complex interaction between patrons and authors, commitment to education, the Protestant Reformation, political writing, new treatments of law and history, humanistic concerns and developments in professional...

Essays on the remarkably diverse British writers referred to as "Renaissance authors" during the "Age of the Tudors." Writers who produced both prose and verse on virtually every subject in a variety of nondramatic genres.

Drawing from Life magazine and the greatest photo archives of our time, this book chronicles our century by way of an unparalleled collection of photographs