This book is a 'stock-taking' of development theory at the end of the twentieth century. It argues

The American century : the rise and decline of the United States as a world power / White, Donald

society. For whereas a previous generation of historians saw the twentieth-century racial state emerging

America -- IV. From modernism to postmodernism : the twentieth century -- The rejection of idealism : a

Art, Modern -- 20th century.

The American century : the rise and decline of the United States as a world power / White, Donald

us through to the present. However, unusually, it is strongly weighted towards the twentieth century

nineteenth century -- 9. Colonial invasion -- 10. Colonial change, 1918-1950 -- 11. Independent Africa -- 12

Twentieth-century South Africa / John W. De Gruchy -- 7. The African Independent Churches / Jim Kiernan -- 8

the individualism of the late twentieth century. Exploring the interaction of technology and social

People's century, 20th : from the dawn of the century to the start of the cold war / Hodgson

enigmatic concept used to define our cultural condition in the late twentieth century." "Postmodernism