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The last fifty years have seen the world brought closer together than ever before by changes in global travel and communications. At the same time, however, it has been made more fragmented, divided by race, religion and material inequality – while some of us surf the internet, for many the goal is still basic electricity. David Reynolds’s epic history encompasses this diversity, sweeping across the major dramatic political and economic upheavals, and also giving a lively overview of social change, from cities and cars, TV and computers to women’s, gay and civil rights, pop music and the pill. Drawing on an immense range of recent research, this is a compelling chronicle of our times. One World Divisible is the first volume in the Global Century series, books by outstanding scholars on the history of the world in the twentieth century, edited by Paul Kennedy.