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An emerging modern world, 1750-1870
Title
An emerging modern world, 1750-1870 / edited by Sebastian Conrad and Jürgen Osterhammel.
ISBN
9780674047204
0674047206
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
2018
Physical Description
vi, 1,090 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Summary
The long century between 1750 and 1880 was a transformative period in global history. During this time, a world of connected, but essentially still separated large regions, gave way to a globally integrated world. Ever since, different parts of the world were linked not through trade and war alone. Cultural developments, political reform and social change were increasingly entangled across continents and cultures. Emerging Modernity, the fourth volume of the 6-volume series A History of the World, charts this transformative period. How did the modern world economy emerge? Why did industrialization begin in England and not in China, and were there origins of capitalist development outside of the West? What were the roles of slaves and of nomads in this integrating world? Was there a bourgeoisie outside of Euro-America? To what extent did the large empires keep the rise of nation-states in check? Was the emergence of the "Muslim world" an effect of globalization? Such issues are at the center of the four large, thematically organized chapters of the present volume.-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 27, 2019
Series
A history of the world
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Regions and empires in the political history of the long nineteenth century / Cemil Aydin
Introduction
From the world of regions to a globalized imperial world
The era of imperial self-strengthening
Re-regionalization of the imperial world order
Regional, ethnic, and geopolitical roots and consequences of an inter-imperial war
Possibilities of plenty and the persistence of poverty: industrialization and international trade / R. Bin Wong
Introduction
The legacy of pre-industrial political economies
Nineteenth-century industrialization: foundations of a European century in global history
Nineteenth-century economic trajectories in the Americas
The Atlantic world's late nineteenth-century industrial capitalism
Nineteenth-century economies in the world of Western colonization
East Asia: industry, trade and capitalism
The global economy of late nineteenth-century industrial capitalism
A cultural history of global transformation / Sebastian Conrad
Introduction
Regions, integration, and global awareness: a changing world order
The global history of the enlightenment
"Nothing is as it ought to be": the organization of time
Religion in the global world
Hierarchies and connections: aspects of a global social history / Jürgen Osterhammel
Introduction
Discovering the social
The road to a world society
Hierarchies
Mobilities and networks.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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