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National geographic eyewitness to the 20th century / prepared by the Book Division.

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National geographic eyewitness to the 20th century / prepared by the Book Division.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : The Society, c1998.

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National Geographic Society (U.S.). Book Division.
Description
400 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
Summary
"At the threshold of a new millennium, we look back on an extraordinary century, the most momentous and eventful in the history of humankind. In a hundred years that encompass both astonishing achievements and unparalleled horrors, the world has seen the greatest scientific triumphs ever imagined and the two most destructive wars ever fought. At the dawn of the 20th century, powered flight was a visionary dream. A mere seven decades later, American astronauts stood on the moon and gazed back at Earth. As old empires fell, new superpowers arose to take their place. As new discoveries vastly increased our store of knowledge, new technologies shrank the globe and accelerated the pace of life. And as era succeeded era, National Geographic was there to chronicle our ever changing world. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Uniform Title
National geographic.
Alternative Title
  • Eyewitness to the 20th century
  • Eyewitness to the twentieth century
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • History, Modern > 20th century
  • History, Modern > 20th century > Chronology
  • Twentieth century
Genre/Form
Chronologies
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 400) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1900-1909 : the age of big business -- 1910-1919 : the woman's decade -- 1920-1929 : the masses and tribalism -- 1930-1939 : the great depression -- 1940-1949 : birth of the atomic age -- 1950-1959 : the Cold War and McCarthyism -- 1960-1969 : challenging the establishment -- 1970-1979 : watching the world on TV -- 1980-1989 : "all right we are two nations" -- 1990-1999 : After the Cold War, the global society.
ISBN
  • 0792270495 (reg.)
  • 0792270258 (dlx.)
LCCN
^^^98022756^
OCLC
  • 39007191
  • SCSB-11085577
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library