Essential Collection Volume 2: Versailles to Bosnia

The Essential Collection are resource books for modern history containing some of the essential primary sources - both text and pictorial - on the major events of the period covered in each volume.

Each volume also includes biographies, built up from primary sources, of many of the major individuals involved in the events. Each source is introduced with notes to place the source in its historical context and to explain the historical significance of the source.

Volume One provides material from the French Revolution to the outbreak of the First World War.

Volume Two covers the major events from the First World War to the outbreak of war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

Contents

• Introduction
• The nature and use of historical evidence
• History as enquiry
• The nature of primary source evidence
• The nature of secondary sources
• Four levels of meaning in evidence
• Writing paragraphs in historical studies
• Glossary of historical terms
• Part 1: Retribution and Self-Determination
  Items 1-14
• Part 2: The League of Nations Experiment
  Items 15-19
• Part 3: Building a New Socialist Society
  Items 20-30
• Part 4: Boom and Bust: The Capitalist Experiment
  Items 31-38
• Part 5: Ideology and Power: Fascism and Nazism
  Items 39-44
• Part 6: Aggression and Appeasement
  Items 50-63
• Part 7: World War II: Ideals and Objectives
  Items 64-77
• Part 8: The United Nations and Decolonisation
  Items 78-84
• Part 9: New Nations and Neo-imperialism
  Items 85-94
• Part 10: The Cold War and the 'New World Order'
  Items 95-112
• Part 11: Education, Human Rights and 'the Global Village'
  Items 113-121
• Index