An emerging modern world, 1750-1870 / edited by Sebastian Conrad and Jürgen Osterhammel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conrad, Sebastian, editor.

Osterhammel, Jürgen, editor.

Series:

History of the world (Belknap Press)

A history of the world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--History--18th century.

Globalization.

Globalization--History--19th century.

Civilization, Modern--18th century.

Civilization, Modern.

Civilization, Modern--19th century.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 1090 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.

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.

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

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

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

Discovering the social

The road to a world society

Hierarchies

Mobilities and networks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674047204

0674047206

OCLC:

1002826244