World Revolution of Westernization: The Twentieth Century in Global Perspective

by Theodore H. Von Laue

Book Overview

Theodore H. Von Laue's stunningly original and controversial book approaches the dynamics of twentieth-century history from an entirely new perspective by proposing that the little-understood historic process known as the world revolution of Westernization has caused the global violence and warfare of this century. Accounting for world wars, the rise of communism and fascism, decolonization, Third World dictatorships, and contemporary terrorism, Von...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195049071
• ISBN13: 9780195049077
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"