| Description |
xxiv, 540 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
The Blackwell history of the world |
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Blackwell history of the world.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of Illustrations xii -- List of Maps and Tables xviii -- Series Editor's Preface xix -- Acknowledgments xxii -- Notes and Conventions xxiii -- Introduction 1 -- The Organization of the Book 3 -- Problem One: "Prime Movers" and the Economic Factor 5 -- Problem Two: Global History and Postmodernism 8 -- Problem Three: The Continuing "Riddle of the Modern" 9 -- Conforming to Standards: Bodily Practice 12 -- Building Outward from the Body: Communications and -- Complexity 19 -- Part I The End Of The Old Regime 23 -- Old Regimes and "Archaic Globalization" 27 -- Peasants and Lords 27 -- The Politics of Difference 29 -- towers on the Fringes of States 36 -- arbingers of New Political Formations 40 -- The Prehistory of "Globalization" 41 -- rchaic and Early Modem Globalization 44 -- tospect 47 -- ssages from the Old Regimes to Modernity 49 -- The Last "Great Domestication" and "Industrious -- Revolutions" 49 -- New Patterns of Afro-Asian Material Culture, Production, -- and Trade 55 -- The Internal and External Limits of Afro-Asian "Industrious -- Revolutions" 58 -- Trade, Finance, and Innovation: European Competitive -- Advantages 59 -- The Activist, Patriotic State Evolves 64 -- Critical Publics 71 -- The Development of Asian and African Publics 76 -- Conclusion: "Backwardness," Lags, and Conjunctures 80 -- Prospect 82 -- 3 Converging Revolutions, 1780-1820 86 -- Contemporaries Ponder the World Crisis 86 -- A Summary Anatomy of the World Crisis, 1720-1820 88 -- Sapping the Legitimacy of the State: From France to China 100 -- The Ideological Origins of the Modern Left and the Moder State 106 -- Nationalities versus States and Empires 112 -- The Third Revolution: Polite and Commercial Peoples -- Worldwide 114 -- Prospect 120 -- Part Ii The Modern World In Genesis 121 -- 4 Between World Revolutions, c.1815-1865 125 -- Assessing the "Wreck of Nations" 125 -- British Maritime Supremacy, World Trade, and -- the Revival of Agriculture 128 -- Emigration: A Safety Valve? 132 -- The Losers in the "New World Order," 1815-1865 134 -- Problems of Hybrid Legitimacy: Whose State Was It? 139 -- The State Gains Strength, but not Enough 143 -- Wars of Legitimacy in Asia: A Summary Account 148 -- Economic and Ideological Roots of the Asian Revolutions 151 -- The Years of Hunger and Rebellion in Europe, 1848-1851 155 -- The American Civil War as a Global Event 161 -- Convergence or Difference? 165 -- Reviewing the Argument 168 -- 5 Industrialization and the New City 170 -- Historians, Industrialization, and Cities 170 -- The Progress of Industrialization 172 -- Poverty and the Absence of Industry 177 -- Cities as Centers of Production, Consumption, and Politics 183 -- The Urban Impact of the Global Crisis, 1780-1820 186 -- Race and Class in the New Cities 188 -- Working-Class Politics 191 -- Worldwide Urban Cultures and their Critics 194 -- Conclusion 198 -- 6 Nation, Empire, and Ethnicity, c.1860-1900 199 -- Theories of Nationalism 199 -- When was Nationalism? 205 -- Whose Nation? 206 -- Perpetuating Nationalisms: Memories, National Associations, -- and Print 208 -- From Community to Nation: The Eurasian Empires 212 -- Where We Stand with Nationalism 218 -- Peoples without States: Persecution or Assimilation? 219 -- Imperialism and its History: The Late Nineteenth Century 227 -- Dimensions of the "New Imperialism" 228 -- A World of Nation-States? 234 -- The Persistence of Archaic Globalization 234 -- From Globalization to Internationalism 236 -- Internationalism in Practice 239 -- Conclusion 242 -- Part Iii State And Society In The Age Of -- Imperialism 245 -- 7 Myths and Technologies of the Modern State 247 -- Dimensions of the Moder State 247 -- The State and the Historians 249 -- Problems of Defining the State 252 -- The Modern State Takes Root: Geographical Dimensions 254 -- Claims to Justice and Symbols of Power 261 -- The State's Resources 265 -- The State's Obligations to Society 271 -- Tools of the State 274 -- State, Economy, and Nation 277 -- A Balance Sheet: What had the State Achieved? 281 -- 8 The Theory and Practice of Liberalism, Rationalism, -- Socialism, and Science 284 -- Contextualizing Intellectual History 284 -- The Corruption of the Righteous Republic: A Classic Theme 285 -- Righteous Republics Worldwide 288 -- The Advent of Liberalism and the Market: -- Western Exceptionalism? 290 -- Liberalism and Land Reform: Radical Theory and -- Conservative Practice 295 -- Free Trade or National Political Economy? 300 -- Representing the Peoples 302 -- Secularism and Positivism: Transnational Affinities 307 -- The Reception of Socialism and its Local Resonances 308 -- iicience in Global Context 312 -- .Trofessionalization at World Level 320 -- Conclusion 322 -- 9 Empires of Religion 32 -- Religion in the Eyes of Contemporaries 32 -- The View of Recent Historians 32 -- The Rise of New-Style Religion 33( -- Modes of Religious Dominion, their Agents and their -- Limitations 332 -- Formalizing Religious Authority, Creating "Imperial Religions" 33( -- Formalizing Doctrines and Rites 34( -- The Expansion of "Imperial Religions" on their Inner and -- Outer Frontiers 343 -- Pilgrimage and Globalization 351 -- Printing and the Propagation of Religion 357 -- Religious Building 359 -- Religion and the Nation 361 -- Conclusion: The Spirits of the Age 363 -- 10 The World of the Arts and the Imagination 366 -- Arts and Politics 366 -- Hybridity and Uniformity in Art across the Globe 367 -- Leveling Forces: The Market, the Everyday, and the Museum 371 -- The Arts of the Emerging Nation, 1760-1850 374 -- Arts and the People, 1850-1914 380 -- Outside the West: Adaptation and Dependency 381 -- Architecture: A Mirror of the City 384 -- Towards World Literature? 385 -- Conclusion: Arts and Societies 389 -- Prospect 392 -- Part Iv Change, Decay, And Crisis 393 -- 11 The Reconstitution of Social Hierarchies 395 -- Change and the Historians 396 -- Gender and Subordination in the "Liberal Age" 399 -- Slavery's Indian Summer 402 -- The Peasant and Rural Laborer as Bond Serf 410 -- The Peasants that Got Away 415 -- Why Rural Subordination Survived 417 -- The Transformation of "Gentries" 418 -- Challenges to the Gentry 419 -- Routes to Survival: State Service and Commerce 420 -- Men of Fewer "Broad Acres" in Europe 424 -- Surviving Supremacies 426 -- Continuity or Change? 430 -- 12 The Destruction of Native Peoples and Ecological -- Depredation 432 -- What is Meant by "Native Peoples"? 432 -- Europeans and Native Peoples before c.1820 434 -- Native Peoples in the "Age of Hiatus" 437 -- The White Deluge, 1840-1890 439 -- The Deluge in Practice: New Zealand, South Africa, and the USA 441 -- Ruling Savage Natures: Recovery and Marginalization 444 -- 13 Conclusion: The Great Acceleration, c.1890-1914 451 -- Predicting "Things to Come" 451 -- The Agricultural Depression, Internationalism, and -- the New Imperialism 455 -- The New Nationalism 462 -- The Strange Death of International Liberalism 464 -- Summing Up: Globalization and Crisis, 1780-1914 468 -- Global Comparisons' and Connections, 1780-1914: Conclusion 469 -- What Were the Motors of Change? 473 -- Power in Global and International Networks 475 -- Contested Uniformity and Universal Complexity Revisited 478 -- August 1914 486 -- Notes 488 -- Bibliography 514 -- Index 533 |
| Summary |
"This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at this time than is commonly thought. The book: Explores previously neglected sets of connections in world history; Reveals that the world was far more 'globalised', even at the beginning of this period, than is commonly thought; Sketches the 'ripple effects' of world crises such as the European revolutions and the American Civil War; Shows how events in Asia, Africa and South America impacted on the world as a whole; Considers the great themes of the nineteenth-century world, including the rise of the modern state, industrialisation and liberalism; Challenges and complements the regional and national approaches which have traditionally dominated history teaching and writing." -- Publisher's website |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 514-532) and index |
| Subject |
History, Modern -- 18th century.
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Imperialism.
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Globalization -- History.
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Globalization.
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Revolutions -- History -- 18th century.
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History, Modern -- 19th century.
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History, Modern -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| LC no. |
2003001453 |
| ISBN |
0631187995 alkaline paper |
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0631236163 paperback alkaline paper |
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