Aron, Raymond, <br/><br/>
The dawn of universal history: selected essays from a witness of the twentieth century / 
Raymond Aron ; translated by Barbara Bray ; edited by Yair Reiner ; with an introduction by Tony Judt. 
 - New York :  Basic Books,  c2002. 
 - xxvi, 518 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> "The essays in this book were originally published in 1996 in France as part of Une histoire du XXe siècle ..."--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/> Introduction /  Nations and Empires --  From Sarajevo to Hiroshima.  The Technological Surprise.  The Dynamic of Total War.  The Leninist Myth About Imperialism.  War and the Total State.  Necessity and Accidents --  The Secular Religions.  Democratic and Totalitarian States.  The Future of Secular Religions.  From Marxism to Stalinism.  The Expansion of Stalinism --  The Imperial Republic.  Prologue: The Island-Continent.  The United States and the International System --  The End of Colonial Empires.  What Empires Cost and What Profits They Bring.  Indochina.  The Algerian Tragedy.  Algeria and the Republic --  The Dawn of Universal History.  Tony Judt -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0465004083 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History, Modern
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>909.82  / ARO/D