The transformation of the world : a global history of the nineteenth century /
Jurgen Osterhammel, translated by Patrick Camiller.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
- xxii, 1167 p. ; 24 cm.
- America in the world .
"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 and indexes.
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.
9780691147451 (hbk : acid-free paper)
2013025754
History, Modern--19th century. Historia Moderna--Siglo XIX.