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Osterhammel, Jürgen.
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Osterhammel, Jürgen.
History, Modern -- 19th century.
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The
transformation
of the
world
: a
global
history
of the
nineteenth
century
/ Jurgen Osterhammel.
by
Osterhammel, Jürgen.
Princeton University Press, 2014.
Call #:
909.81 O85t
Subjects
History
, Modern -- 19th
century
.
Series
America in the
world
.
ISBN:
9780691147451 (hc.)
0691147450 (hc.)
Uniform title:
Verwandlung der Welt. English English.
Description:
xxii, 1167 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"First published in Germany by C.H. Beck under the title Die Verwandlung der Welt, Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2009."
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
A monumental
history
of the
nineteenth
century
. A panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a
world
in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly
global
history
of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. The powerful and complex forces that drove
global
change during the "long
nineteenth
century
," from New York to New Delhi, from the Latin American revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and promise of Europe's transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet. Osterhammel describes a
world
increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railways. He explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, and challenges the widely held belief that the
nineteenth
century
witnessed the triumph of the nation-state"--Provided by publisher.
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