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"First published in Germany by C.H. Beck under the title Die Verwandlung der Welt, Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2009."

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Text in English.

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Online version: Osterhammel, Jürgen. Verwandlung der Welt. English. Transformation of the world. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Original

America in the world

Memory and self-observation: the perpetuation of the nineteenth-century

Time: when was the nineteenth century?

Space: where was the nineteenth century?

Mobilities

Living standards: risk and security in material life

Cities: European models and worldwide creativity

Frontiers: subjugation of space and challenges to nomadic life

Imperial systems and nation-states: the persistence of empires

International orders, wars, transnational movements: between two world wars

Revolutions: from Philadelphia via Nanjing to Saint Petersburg

The state: minimal government, performances, and the iron cage

Energy and industry: who unbound Prometheus, when, and where?

Labor: the physical basis of culture

Networks: extension, density, holes

Hierarchies: the vertical dimension of social space

Knowledge: growth, concentration, distribution

Civilization and exclusion

Religion.

Memory and self-observation : the perpetuation of the nineteenth-century. Visibility and audibility ; Treasuries of memory and knowledge ; Observation, description, realism ; Numbers ; News ; Photography

Time : when was the nineteenth century? Chronology and the coherence of the age ; Calendar and periodization ; Breaks and transitions ; The Age of Revolution, Victorianism, Fin de Siecle ; Clocks and acceleration

Space : where was the nineteenth century? Space and time ; Metageography: naming spaces ; Mental maps: the relativity of spatial perspective ; Spaces of interaction: land and sea ; Ordering and governing space ; Territoriality, diaspora, borders

Mobilities. Magnitudes and tendencies ; Population disasters and the demographic transition ; The legacy of early modern migrations: Creoles and slaves ; Penal colony and exile ; Ethnic cleansing ; Internal migration and the changing slave trade ; Migration and capitalism ; Global motives

Living standards : risk and security in material life. The standard of living and the quality of life ; Life expectancy and "Homo hygienicus" ; Medical fears and prevention ; Mobile perils, old and new ; Natural disasters ; Famine ; Agricultural revolutions ; Poverty and wealth ; Globalized consumption

Cities : European models and worldwide creativity. The city as norm and exception ; Urbanization and urban systems ; Between deurbanization and hypergrowth ; Specialized cities, universal cities ; The golden age of port cities ; Colonial cities, treaty ports, imperial metropolises ; Internal spaces and undergrounds ; Symbolism, aesthetics, planning

Frontiers : subjugation of space and challenges to nomadic life. Invasions and frontier processes ; The North American West ; South America and South Africa ; Eurasia ; Settler colonialism ; The conquest of nature : invasions of the biosphere

Imperial systems and nation-states : the persistence of empires. Great-power politics and imperial expansion ; Paths to the nation-state ; What holds empires together? ; Empires : typology and comparisons ; Central and marginal cases ; Pax Britannica ; Living in empires

International orders, wars, transnational movements : between two world wars. The thorny path to a global system of states ; Spaces of power and hegemony ; Peaceful Europe, wartorn Asia and Africa ; Diplomacy as political instrument and intercultural art ; Internationalisms and the emergence of universal norms

Revolutions : from Philadelphia via Nanjing to Saint Petersburg. Revolutions

from below, from above, from unexpected directions ; The revolutionary Atlantic ; The great turbulence in midcentury ; Eurasian revolutions, fin de siecle

The state: minimal government, performances, and the iron cage. Order and communication: the state and the political ; Reinventions of monarchy ; Democracy ; Bureaucracies ; Mobilization and discipline ; Self-strengthening : the politics of peripheral defensive ; State and nationalism

Energy and industry : who unbound Prometheus, when, and where? Industrialization ; Energy regimes: the century of coal ; Paths of economic development and nondevelopment ; Capitalism

Labor : the physical basis of culture. The weight of rural labor ; Factory, construction site, office ; Toward emancipation: slaves, serfs, peasants ; The asymmetry of wage labor

Networks : extension, density, holes. Communications ; Trade ; Money and finance

Hierarchies : the vertical dimension of social space. Is a global social history possible? ; Aristocracies in (moderate) decline ; Bourgeois and quasi-bourgeois

Knowledge : growth, concentration, distribution. World languages ; Literacy and schooling ; The university as a cultural export from Europe ; Mobility and translation ; Humanities and the study of the other

Civilization and exclusion. The "civilized world" and its "mission" ; Slave emancipation and white supremacy ; Antiforeignism and "race war" ; Anti-Semitism

Religion. Concepts of religion and the religious ; Secularization ; Religion and empire ; Reform and renewal

Conclusion : the nineteenth century in history. Self-diagnostics ; Modernity ; Again : the beginning or end of a century ; Five characteristics of the century.