TY  - BOOK
AU  - Osterhammel,Jurgen
TI  - The transformation of the world: a global history of the nineteenth century 
T2  - America in the world
SN  - 9780691147451 (hbk : acid-free paper)
AV  - D 358 O85t 2014
U1  - 909.81 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Historia Moderna
KW  - Siglo XIX
N1  - "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
ER  -