The transformation of the world : a global history of the nineteenth century / Jurgen Osterhammel.
Language: English Original language: German Series: America in the worldPublisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2015Edition: [Enhanced Credo edition]Description: 1 online resource (29 entries) : 4 images ; digital filesContent type:- still image
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- 9781785392481
- Verwandlung der Welt. English
- 909.81 23
- D358 .O8813 2014
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"First published in Germany by C.H. Beck under the title Die Verwandlung der Welt, Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2009."
Includes bibliographical referenceses.
Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Approaches: I. Memory and self-observation: the perpetuation of the nineteenth century; II. Time: when was the nineteenth century? III. Space: where was the nineteenth century? -- Part Two: Panoramas: IV. Mobilities; V. Living standards: risk and security in material life; VI. Cities: European models and worldwide creativity; VII. Frontiers: subjugation of space and challenges to nomadic life; VIII. Imperial systems and nation-states: the persistence of empires; IX. International orders, wars, transnational movements: between two world wars; X. Revolutions: from Philadelphia via Nanjing to Saint Petersburg; XI. The state: minimal government, performances, and the iron cage -- Part Three: Themes: XII. Energy and industry: who unbound Prometheus, when, and where? XIII. Labor: the physical basis of culture; XIV. Networks: extension, density, holes; XV. Hierarchies: the vertical dimension of social space; XVI. Knowledge: growth, concentration, distribution; XVII. Civilization and exclusion; XVIII. Religion -- Conclusion: the nineteenth century in history: 1. Self-diagnostics; 2. Modernity; 3. Again: the beginning or end of a century; 4. Five characteristics of the century -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography.
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jurgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition.