Win Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia, Vol 4: World History From 1800 To The Present Day Edited By Robert Blake Represented In Digital Copy

countries of the world have undergone dramatic political, economic, and social changes, the result of such upheavals as the Industrial Revolution, colonization, two world wars, and scientific/technological advances.
This volume of the Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia covering World History: fromto the present day provides,detailed entries, alphabetically arranged, that cover statesmen and rulers, reformers and rebels military and naval campaigns religious and political, and social movements and the history of individual countries, continents, and alliances, including Britain, Europe, the United States, Canada, Africa, Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Soviet bloc, and the Middle East.
Maps and diagrams, numerous color and black and white photographs, and

supplementary crossreferences all combine to provide a comprehensive and authoritative reference work for home or school.
Robert Norman William Blake, Baron Blake was an English historian, He is best known for hisbiography of Benjamin Disraeli,st Earl of Beaconsfield, and for The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill, which grew out of hisFord lectures.
He was created a life peer as Baron Blake, of Braydeston in the County of Norfolk, Lord Blake was editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, a Trustee of the British Museum, and Chairman of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.
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