A World History of Our Own Times: From the turn of the century to the 1918 armisticeSimon and Schuster, 1949 |
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... Asia . ' Europe ' and ' Asia ' are really very precise ideas . Europe means law ; Asia means arbitrary rule . Europe means respect for facts ; Asia means the purely personal . Europe is the man ; Asia is at once the old man and the ...
... Asia . ' Europe ' and ' Asia ' are really very precise ideas . Europe means law ; Asia means arbitrary rule . Europe means respect for facts ; Asia means the purely personal . Europe is the man ; Asia is at once the old man and the ...
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... Asia as the twentieth century began . F PREVIEW OR ALMOST a thousand years the Russians had lived in a world of their own , half European , half Asiatic . They got their Eastern Orthodox Christianity from Byzantium , their Tsarist ...
... Asia as the twentieth century began . F PREVIEW OR ALMOST a thousand years the Russians had lived in a world of their own , half European , half Asiatic . They got their Eastern Orthodox Christianity from Byzantium , their Tsarist ...
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... Asia . The rise of the German Empire had created an overbalance of power that forced Russia and France together in Europe . The declining power of the Austrian and Ottoman Empires created uncertainty in the Balkans and the Middle East ...
... Asia . The rise of the German Empire had created an overbalance of power that forced Russia and France together in Europe . The declining power of the Austrian and Ottoman Empires created uncertainty in the Balkans and the Middle East ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF 1900 | 7 |
CHAPTER PAGE 1 EUROPE AND GERMANY 3 | 7 |
THE LESSER TWOTHIRDS OF THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE | 23 |
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