How has the world changed in the last century? As we look back across a hundred years of turbulence, The Pimlico History of the Twentieth Century provides a major reassessment of what the twentieth century has meant to people throughout the world.

Avoiding conventional chronological accounts to concentrate on deeper trends, Clive Ponting analyses the fundamental forces of population, industry and their consequences for the environment. He traces the rise and fall of empires, the impact of nationalism and examines domestic politics from all political perspectives. He also considers the darker side of history in the growing repressive power of states across the world, and the most terrible of twentieth-century crimes - genocide.

The Pimlico History of the Twentieth Century is a fascinating and challenging analysis of the whole world in the twentieth century, combining a global sweep with an eye for detail and individual experiences. A work of easy reference, this ambitious and masterly book will be of value for decades to come.