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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
Andrew Roberts
HarperCollins
February 2007
On Sale: February 6, 2007
752 pages
ISBN: 0060875984
EAN: 9780060875985
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction History
In 1900, where Churchill ended the fourth volume of his
History of the English-Speaking Peoples, the United States
had not yet emerged onto the world scene as a great power.
Meanwhile, the British Empire was in decline but did not yet
know it. Any number of other powers might have won primacy
in the twentieth century and beyond, including Germany,
Russia, possibly even France. Yet the coming century was to
belong to the English-speaking peoples, who successively and
successfully fought the Kaiser's Germany, Axis aggression
and Soviet Communism, and who are now struggling against
Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. Andrew Roberts brilliantly reveals what made the
English-speaking people the preeminent political culture
since 1900, and how they have defended their primacy from
the many assaults upon them. What connects those countries
where the majority of the population speaks English as a
first language—the United States, Great Britain, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies and Ireland—is far
greater than what separates them, and the development of
their history since 1900 has been a phenomenal success story. Authoritative and engrossing, A History of the
English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 is an enthralling
account of the century in which the political culture of one
linguistic world-grouping comprehensively triumphed over all
others. Roberts's History proves especially invaluable as
the United States today looks to other parts of the
English-speaking world as its best, closest and most
dependable allies.
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