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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: America in the worldPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: xxii, 1167 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780691147451 (hbk : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.81
LOC classification:
  • D 358 O85t 2014
Contents:
p.1. Approaches -- Memory and self-observation : the perpetuation of the nineteenth century -- Time : whe was the nineteenth century? -- Space : where was the nineteenth century? -- p.2. Panoramas -- Mobilities -- Living standards : risk and security in material life -- Cities : European models and worldwide creativity -- Frontiers : subjugation of space and challenge 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 -- p.3. Themes -- 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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) D 358 O85t 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000114381

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

p.1. Approaches -- Memory and self-observation : the perpetuation of the nineteenth century -- Time : whe was the nineteenth century? -- Space : where was the nineteenth century? -- p.2. Panoramas -- Mobilities -- Living standards : risk and security in material life -- Cities : European models and worldwide creativity -- Frontiers : subjugation of space and challenge 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 -- p.3. Themes -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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