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The English-speaking century.(A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900)(Book review)
In the past one hundred years, four successive political movements--Prussian militarism, German Nazism, Japanese imperialism, and international Communism--mounted military campaigns to conquer Europe, Asia, and the world. Had any of them prevailed, it would have been a profound loss for civilization as we know it. Yet over the course of these bids for power, a coalition headed first by Britain and then by the United States emerged not just to oppose but to destroy them utterly.
From the long perspective of human affairs, these victories must stand as among the most remarkable of the past three millennia. They were as decisive for world history as the victories of ...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek Thomas, Evan February 26, 2007 700+ words
...A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900." Roberts...of the high age of the English-speaking peoples (defined as nations...pressed to square the English-speaking peoples' love of liberty and...
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- Magazine article from: National Review O'Sullivan, John April 16, 2007 700+ words
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, by Andrew...splendid new history of the English-speaking peoples, the American Republic...of the ocean among the English-speaking peoples." Translated into foreign...
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- Magazine article from: History Today Roberts, Andrew May 1, 2002 700+ words
...willing to undertake to write "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", their origins, their quarrels, their misfortunes...that overtook not only Churchill but also the English-speaking peoples themselves, this four-volume work (The Birth...
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- Magazine article from: The Historian Tabili, Laura December 22, 2008 700+ words
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. By Andrew Roberts...multivolume A History of the English-Speaking People. The author...amp; has to do with the English-speaking peoples is never explained, but several...
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- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2007 700+ words
0060875984 A history of the English-speaking peoples since 1900. Roberts, Andrew. HarperCollins...Churchill's four-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, which dealt with the historical experiences...
- A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900.(Brief article)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review June 22, 2007 700+ words
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. Andrew Roberts. Weidenfeld...historical entity' dominated by English-speakers, whether British...misdirects) American planners, that English-speakers have a mission to civilise...
- The decline of the English speaking peoples: America's national language is...
- Magazine article from: Reason Gillespie, Nick July 1, 2006 700+ words
...immigrants, legal and illegal, learn English as a condition of citizenship, guest...centuries by not strictly enforcing an English-only rule among the huddled masses and...Spangled Banner" should be sung only in English, lest we lose our "national soul...
- The Kalahari Ethnographies (1896-98) of Siegfried Passarge: nineteenth-century...
- Magazine article from: Africa GUENTHER, MATHIAS September 22, 1999 700+ words
...century Khoisan- and Bantu-speaking peoples, trans. Edwin N. Wilmsen...00, ISBN 3 89645 141. Among English-speaking workers in the field...account of the Bushman and Bantu-speaking peoples of the Okavango, a detailed...
Source: HighBeam Research, The English-speaking century.(A History of the English-Speaking...