TY - BOOK AU - Aron,Raymond TI - The dawn of universal history: selected essays from a witness of the twentieth century SN - 0465004083 U1 - 909.82 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Basic Books KW - History, Modern N1 - "The essays in this book were originally published in 1996 in France as part of Une histoire du XXe siècle ..."--T.p. verso; Introduction; Tony Judt --; Nations and Empires --; From Sarajevo to Hiroshima; The Technological Surprise; The Dynamic of Total War; The Leninist Myth About Imperialism; War and the Total State; Necessity and Accidents --; The Secular Religions; Democratic and Totalitarian States; The Future of Secular Religions; From Marxism to Stalinism; The Expansion of Stalinism --; The Imperial Republic; Prologue: The Island-Continent; The United States and the International System --; The End of Colonial Empires; What Empires Cost and What Profits They Bring; Indochina; The Algerian Tragedy; Algeria and the Republic --; The Dawn of Universal History ER -