The dawn of universal history : selected essays from a witness to the twentieth century
""A must read for every opponent of totalitarianism and partisan of a chastened or mature liberalism.""--The New Criterion
eBook, English, 2003
BasicBooks ; Oxford Publicity Partnership, New York, Oxford, 2003
1 online resource (xxvi, 518 pages)
9780786748563, 0786748567
823170157
Introduction; I: Nations and Empires; II: From Sarajevo to Hiroshima; 1. The Technological Surprise; 2. The Dynamic of Total War; 3. The Leninist Myth About Imperialism; 4. War and the Total State; 5. Necissity and Accidents; III: The Secular Religions; Democratic and Totalitarian States; The Future of Secular Religions; From Marxism to Stalinism; The Expansion of Stalinism; IV: The Imperial Republic; Proligue: The Island-Continent; United States and the International System; V: The End Of Colonial Empires; What Empires Cost and What Profits They Bring; Indochina. The Algerian TragedyAlgeria and the Republic; VI: The Dawn of Universal History; Endnotes; Provenance of the Texts; Index
Originally published: 2002
Translated from the French