TY - BOOK AU - Ketelbey,C.D.M. TI - A History of Modern Times from 1789: SN - 0195607457 U1 - 940.22 23 PY - 1929/// CY - India PB - Oxford University Press N1 - The fifth edition deals with major developments such as the economic post-war recovery and prosperity of France, Italy and Germany, Russia’s built-up of military and political power; changes in the Indian sub- continent and the creation of Bangladesh; the continuing transformation of Africa into self-governing units; the Cultural Revolution in China and her manoeuvring with Russia for strategic position in South-East and Central Asia. The author also comments on the deepening depression and disillusionment in the USA in the sixties, the militant black movements, the space race to the moon, the Cuban crisis and the Vietnam war ER -