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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- World War I -- The Russian Revolution -- The Treaty of Versailles -- Suffragists -- The Spanish Flu Pandemic -- The Growth of Extremism -- The Great Depression -- Hitler's Rise -- Japan's War on China -- World War II -- The Partition of India -- Assasination of Gandhi -- Creation of Israel -- China's Civil War -- The Cold War -- The Berlin Wall -- The Vietnam War -- The Fall of Communism -- Islamic Extremism -- Timeline -- Glossary -- Further Information -- Index -- Back Cover.

This collection of essays explores the impact that nationalism, capitalism and socialism had on economics during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on Central Europe, contributors examine the role that businesspeople and enterprises played in Germany's and Austria's paths to the catastrophe of Nazism. Based on new archival research, the essays gathered here ask how the business community became involved in the political process and describes the consequences arising from that involvement. Particular attention is given to the responses of individual businesspeople to changing political circumstances and their efforts to balance the demands of their consciences with the pursuit for profit.

A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age, explores peace in the period from 1920 to the present. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of peace, peace movements, maintaining peace, peace in relation to gender, religion and war and representations of peace. A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in the twentieth and twentieth century.