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100 1 _aAron, Raymond,
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245 1 4 _aThe dawn of universal history: selected essays from a witness of the twentieth century /
_cRaymond Aron ; translated by Barbara Bray ; edited by Yair Reiner ; with an introduction by Tony Judt.
260 _aNew York :
_bBasic Books,
_cc2002.
300 _axxvi, 518 p. ;
_c24 cm.
500 _a"The essays in this book were originally published in 1996 in France as part of Une histoire du XXe siècle ..."--T.p. verso.
505 0 0 _tIntroduction /
_rTony Judt --
_tNations and Empires --
_tFrom Sarajevo to Hiroshima.
_tThe Technological Surprise.
_tThe Dynamic of Total War.
_tThe Leninist Myth About Imperialism.
_tWar and the Total State.
_tNecessity and Accidents --
_tThe Secular Religions.
_tDemocratic and Totalitarian States.
_tThe Future of Secular Religions.
_tFrom Marxism to Stalinism.
_tThe Expansion of Stalinism --
_tThe Imperial Republic.
_tPrologue: The Island-Continent.
_tThe United States and the International System --
_tThe End of Colonial Empires.
_tWhat Empires Cost and What Profits They Bring.
_tIndochina.
_tThe Algerian Tragedy.
_tAlgeria and the Republic --
_tThe Dawn of Universal History.
650 0 _aHistory, Modern
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