List of Figures and Photo Credits vii

Series Editor's Preface ix

Christopher Bayly and the Making of World History xiii

Preface xix

Introduction 1

1 The World Crisis, c.1900-1930: Europe and the "Middle East" 12

2 The World Crisis, c.1900-1930: Africa, Asia and Beyond 29

3 Authoritarianism and Dictatorship Worldwide, c.1900-1950 49

4 Democracies and Their Discontents, c.1900-1950 67

5 The Depression: State Intervention and Popular Resistance 84

6 The Second World War and its Consequences 96

7 Peripheral Conflicts and the End of Old Regimes, c.1945-1955 118

8 America's Hegemony and Colonialism's Finale, mid-1950s to 1970s 139

9 The "Tipping Point": World Politics and the Shock of the "Long 1980s" 162

10 The Expansion of Human Knowledge: The Twentieth-Century Person and Society 179

11 The Self and Human Society 194

12 Arts, Literature and Entertainment: Crisis and Recovery 215

13 Religion: Contestation and Revival 231

14 A Century of Killing and a Century of Crime 247

15 Internationalism and Transnationalism in Theory and Practice 263

16 The Shadow of Empire in the Modern World 270

17 The Pressure of People 287

18 Between Two Centuries: Economic Liberalisation and Political Fragmentation, c.1991 to 2015 298

Conclusion: Periods and Prophecy 323

Notes 333

Bibliography 363

Index 379