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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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