Foreword xi
Chapter 1 Britain's Empire
Victoria's England 1
The Sepoy Mutiny 6
Chapter 2 West Against East
Japan Re-Opens 13
The Crimean War 18
Chapter 3 British Invasions
The Great Game 25
Wandering Through Africa 30
Chapter 4 Resurrection and Rebellion
Italy's "Resurrection" 37
The Taiping Rebellion 42
Chapter 5 The American Civil War
South Against North 51
After the Civil War 56
Chapter 6 Two Tries For Freedom
Paraguay and the Triple Alliance 63
The Dominion of Canada 68
Chapter 7 Two Empires, Three Republics, and One Kingdom
Two Empires and Three Republics 77
The Second Reich 82
Chapter 8 Becoming Modern
Rails, Zones, and Bulbs 91
Japan's Meiji Restoration 97
Chapter 9 Two More Empires, Two Rebellions
The Dutch East Indies 103
The Sick Man of Europe 109
Chapter 10 A Canal to the East and a Very Dry Desert
The War of the Pacific 117
The Suez Canal 123
Chapter 11 The Far Parts of the World
The Iron Outlaw 129
Carving Up Africa 135
Chapter 12 Unhappy Unions
Ireland's Troubles 141
The Boers and the British 146
Chapter 13 The Old-Fashioned Emperor and the Red Sultan
Brazil's Republic 157
Abdulhamid the Red 162
Chapter 14 Two Czars and Two Emperors
The Next-to-Last Czar of Russia 171
Ethiopia and Italy 175
Chapter 15 Small Countries With Large Invaders
The Korean Battleground 183
The Spanish-American War 188
Chapter 16 The Expanding United States
Moving West 197
Stocks, Philanthropists, and Outlaws 202
Chapter 17 Chinas Troubles
The Boxer Rebellion 209
The Czar and the Admiral 215
Chapter 18 Europe and the Countries Just East
Persia, Its Enemies, and Its "Friends" 223
The Balkan Mess 231
Chapter 19 China, Vietnam-and France
The Last Emperor 239
The Vietnamese Restoration Society 243
Chapter 20 Revolution In the Americas…War In the World
The Mexican Revolution 249
World War I 255
Chapter 21 A Revolution Begins, and the Great War Ends
The Russian Revolution 265
The End of World War I 271
Chapter 22 National Uprisings
The Easter Uprising 279
Indian Nationalism 284
Chapter 23 "Peace" and a Man of War
The Peace of Versailles 293
The Rise of Joseph Stalin 299
Chapter 24 The King and II Duce
The First King of Egypt 307
Fascism in Italy 311
Chapter 25 Armies In China
Japan, China, and a Pretend Emperor 321
The Long March 327
Chapter 26 The Great Crash, and What Came of It
Black Tuesday and a New Deal 335
Hitler's Rise to Power 341
Chapter 27 Civil War and Invasion
Red Spain, Black Spain, a King, and a General 349
Rebuilding the "Fatherland" 355
Chapter 28 The Second World War
The Three-War War 363
The Holocaust 369
Chapter 29 The End of World War II
The War that Stretched Across the World 375
The Atom Bomb 383
Chapter 30 Partitioned Countries
Muslims and Hindus in India 391
The Partitioning of Palestine 395
Chapter 31 Western Bullies and American Money
The Suez Crisis 403
The Marshall Plan 409
Chapter 32 Africa and China After World War II
One Country, Two Different Worlds 417
Two Republics of China 422
Chapter 33 Communism in Asia
Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh 429
The Korean War 434
Chapter 34 Dictators in South America and Africa
Argentina's President and His Wife 441
Freedom in the Belgian Congo 449
Chapter 35 The Cold War
The Space Race 457
Thirteen Days in October 462
Chapter 36 Struggles and Assassinations
The Death of John F. Kennedy 471
Civil Rights 477
Chapter 37 Two Short Wars and One Long One
The Vietnam War 487
Trouble in the Middle East 493
Chapter 38 Two Ways of Fighting
Soviet Invasions 501
Terrorism 506
Chapter 39 The 1980s in the East and the Mideast
India After Partition 513
Iran and Iraq 519
Chapter 40 The 1980s in the USSR
Chernobyl and Nuclear Power 527
The End of the Cold War 533
Chapter 41 Communism Crumbles-but Survives
Democracy in China? 539
Communism Crumbles 544
Chapter 42 The End of the Twentieth Century
The First Persian Gulf War 551
Africa, Independent 555
Afterword 563
Table of Dates-A Chronology of the Modern Age 565
A Geography of the Modern Age 575
Pronouncing the Names of the Modern Age 579
Index 589