The transformation of the world : a global history of the nineteenth century / Jürgen Osterhammel ; translated by Patrick Camiller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osterhammel, Jürgen, author.

Contributor:

Camiller, Patrick, translator.

Series:

America in the world

Standardized Title:

Verwandlung der Welt. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

History, Modern--19th century.

History, Modern.

Physical Description:

xxii, 1167 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Contents:

Part 1 Approaches

I Memory and Self-Observation: The Perpetuation of the Nineteenth Century 3

1 Visibility and Audibility 5

2 Treasuries of Memory and Knowledge 7

3 Observation, Description, Realism 17

4 Numbers 25

5 News 29

6 Photography 39

II Time: When Was the Nineteenth Century? 45

1 Chronology and the Coherence of the Age 45

2 Calendar and Periodization 49

3 Breaks and Transitions 52

4 The Age of Revolution, Victorianism, Fin de Siècle 58

5 Clocks and Acceleration 67

III Space: Where Was the Nineteenth Century? 77

1 Space and Time 77

2 Metageography: Naming Spaces 78

3 Mental Maps: The Relativity of Spatial Perspective 86

4 Spaces of Interaction: Land and Sea 94

5 Ordering and Governing Space 104

6 Territoriality, Diaspora, Borders 107

Part 2 Panoramas

IV Mobilities 117

1 Magnitudes and Tendencies 117

2 Population Disasters and the Demographic Transition 124

3 The Legacy of Early Modern Migrations: Creoles and Slaves 128

4 Penal Colony and Exile 133

5 Ethnic Cleansing 139

6 Internal Migration and the Changing Slave Trade 144

7 Migration and Capitalism 154

8 Global Motives 164

V Living Standards: Risk and Security in Material Life 167

1 The Standard of Living and the Quality of Life 167

2 Life Expectancy and "Homo hygienicus" 170

3 Medical Fears and Prevention 178

4 Mobile Perils, Old and New 185

5 Natural Disasters 197

6 Famine 201

7 Agricultural Revolutions 211

8 Poverty and Wealth 216

9 Globalized Consumption 226

VI Cities: European Models and Worldwide Creativity 241

1 The City as Norm and Exception 241

2 Urbanization and Urban Systems 249

3 Between Deurbanization and Hypergrowth 256

4 Specialized Cities, Universal Cities 264

5 The Golden Age of Port Cities 275

6 Colonial Cities, Treaty Ports, Imperial Metropolises 283

7 Internal Spaces and Undergrounds 297

8 Symbolism, Aesthetics, Planning 311

VII Frontiers: Subjugation of Space and Challenges to Nomadic Life 322

1 Invasions and Frontier Processes 322

2 The North American West 331

3 South America and South Africa 347

4 Eurasia 356

5 Settler Colonialism 368

6 The Conquest of Nature: Invasions of the Biosphere 375

VIII Imperial Systems and Nation-States: The Persistence of Empires 392

1 Great-Power Politics and Imperial Expansion 392

2 Paths to the Nation-State 403

3 What Holds Empires Together? 419

4 Empires: Typology and Comparisons 429

5 Central and Marginal Cases 434

6 Pax Britannica 450

7 Living in Empires 461

IX International Orders, Wars, Transnational Movements: Between Two World Wars 469

1 The Thorny Path to a Global System of States 469

2 Spaces of Power and Hegemony 475

3 Peaceful Europe, Wartorn Asia and Africa 483

4 Diplomacy as Political Instrument and-Intercultural Art 493

5 Internationalisms and the Emergence of Universal Norms 505

X Revolutions: From Philadelphia via Nanjing to Saint Petersburg 514

1 Revolutions-from Below, from Above, from Unexpected Directions 514

2 The Revolutionary Atlantic 522

3 The Great Turbulence in Midcentury 543

4 Eurasian Revolutions, Fin de Siècle 558

XI The State: Minimal Government, Performances, and the Iron Cage 572

1 Order and Communication: The State and the Political 572

2 Reinventions of Monarchy 579

3 Democracy 593

4 Bureaucracies 605

5 Mobilization and Discipline 616

6 Self-Strengthening: The Politics of Peripheral Defensive 625

7 State and Nationalism 629

Part 3 Themes

XII Energy and Industry: Who Unbound Prometheus, When, and Where? 637

1 Industrialization 638

2 Energy Regimes: The Century of Coal 651

3 Paths of Economic Development and Nondevelopment 658

4 Capitalism 667

XIII Labor: The Physical Basis of Culture 673

1 The Weight of Rural Labor 675

2 Factory, Construction Site, Office 685

3 Toward Emancipation: Slaves, Serfs, Peasants 697

4 The Asymmetry of Wage Labor 706

XIV Networks: Extension, Density, Holes 710

1 Communications 712

2 Trade 724

3 Money and Finance 730

XV Hierarchies: The Vertical Dimension of Social Space 744

1 Is a Global Social History Possible? 744

2 Aristocracies in (Moderate) Decline 750

3 Bourgeois and Quasi-bourgeois 761

XVI Knowledge: Growth, Concentration, Distribution 779

1 World Languages 781

2 Literacy and Schooling 788

3 The University as a Cultural Export from Europe 798

4 Mobility and Translation 808

5 Humanities and the Study of the Other 814

XVII Civilization and Exclusion 826

1 The "Civilized World" and Its "Mission" 826

2 Slave Emancipation and White Supremacy 837

3 Antiforeignism and "Race War" 855

4 Anti-Semitism 865

XVIII Religion 873

1 Concepts of Religion and the Religious 873

2 Secularization 880

3 Religion and Empire 887

4 Reform and Renewal 894

Conclusion: The Nineteenth Century in History 902

1 Self-Diagnostics 902

2 Modernity 904

3 Again: The Beginning or End of a Century 906

4 Five Characteristics of the Century 907.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1021-1118) and index.

ISBN:

9780691147451

0691147450

OCLC:

850909580