A Concise History of the Modern World

By investigating the major changes in world history during the past 500 years, this book explains to what extent world forces have been responsible for shaping both the past and the present. This book tells of the rise and fall of empires and civilizations, and recounts the growing communality and interdependence of nations. It shows how so many problems of the contemporary world are the legacy of an unprecedented era of western domination - the end of which was hastened by the two world wars. In explaining how the world has come to be what it is, the book examines the implications surrounding the end of the Cold War, the unravelling of communism in Eastern Europe, and the growing challenge of the non-western world to western superiority. It is the author's belief that we have reached a transitional stage in world history in which the world will no longer be shaped by the single image of western modernism, but increasingly by the image of all cultures and civilizations. With the shift of geopolitical and geoeconomic power to Asia, and with the growing worldwide influence of religious fundamentalism and revolutionary nationalism, the need for a global perspective has become acute.

A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 To the Present

Business & Money

WILLIAM WOODRUFF

Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The second volume of Woodruff's memoirs begins with him arriving in Poplar in the early 1930s. Luckily he gets a job at a steel foundry, and lives with an old couple in Bow. It also covers his winning of a place at Oxford and his part in the war effort.

'Beyond Nab End: The Sequel to ''The Road to Nab End'''

Biographies & Memoirs

Little,Brown

Shadows of Glory

Little,Brown & Company

The Road to NAB END An Extraordinary Northern Childhood 1999

Arts & Literature

The Book People

The Struggle for World Power 1500-1980

By investigating the major changes in world history during the past five hundred years, William Woodruff explains to what extent world forces have been responsible for shaping both the past and the present. This extraordinary book tells of the rise and fall of empires and civilizations; it recounts the growing communality and interdependence of nations; it shows how so many problems of the contemporary world are the legacy of an unprecedented era of western domination -- the end of which was hastened by the two world wars. In explaining how the world has come to be what it is, the author examines the implications surrounding the end of the cold war, the unraveling of communism in Eastern Europe, and the growing challenge of the non-western world to western superiority.

WOODRUFF

History

Palgrave

A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present

VESSEL OF SADNESS (EVERYMAN FICTION S.)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

A bestseller in England and celebrated as one of the great memoirs in many years, The Road to Nab End is a marvelously evocative account of growing up poor in a British mill town. From William Woodruff's birth in 1916 (in the carding room of a cotton mill) until he ran away to London at the age of sixteen, he lived in the heart of Blackburn's weaving community in the north of England. But after Lancashire's supremacy in cotton textiles ended with the crash of 1920, his father was thrown out of work. From then on, Billy and his family faced a life blighted by extreme poverty. For the ordinary families of Lancashire, unemployment was an ever-present fear: "If you worked you ate. If there was no work you went hungry." Billy's boyhood was not all misery. Working-class pride and culture made for tight family and neighborhood bonds and added savor to the smallest pleasures in life. Mr. Woodruff writes with an understated lyricism and an eye for telling details that effortlessly pulls us into another time and place.

The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood (Isis Reminiscence Series)

Isis Large Print Books

Beyond Nab End

Europe

Chivers Audio Books

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