The transformation of the world : a global history of the nineteenth century /
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronolo...
| Основен автор: | Osterhammel, Jurgen. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English German |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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America in the world.
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Online version::
Transformation of the world. |
Съдържание:
- Memory and self-observation: the perpetuation of the nineteenth-century
- Time: when was the nineteenth century?
- Space: where was the nineteenth century?
- Mobilities
- Living standards: risk and security in material life
- Cities: European models and worldwide creativity
- Frontiers: subjugation of space and challenges 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
- 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.
- Memory and self-observation: the perpetuation of the nineteenth-century. Visibility and audibility ; Treasuries of memory and knowledge ; Observation, description, realism ; Numbers ; News ; Photography
- Time: when was the nineteenth century? Chronology and the coherence of the age ; Calendar and periodization ; Breaks and transitions ; The Age of Revolution, Victorianism, Fin de Siecle ; Clocks and acceleration
- Space: where was the nineteenth century? Space and time ; Metageography: naming spaces ; Mental maps: the relativity of spatial perspective ; Spaces of interaction: land and sea ; Ordering and governing space ; Territoriality, diaspora, borders
- Mobilities. Magnitudes and tendencies ; Population disasters and the demographic transition ; The legacy of early modern migrations: Creoles and slaves ; Penal colony and exile ; Ethnic cleansing ; Internal migration and the changing slave trade ; Migration and capitalism ; Global motives
- Living standards: risk and security in material life. The standard of living and the quality of life ; Life expectancy and "Homo hygienicus" ; Medical fears and prevention ; Mobile perils, old and new ; Natural disasters ; Famine ; Agricultural revolutions ; Poverty and wealth ; Globalized consumption
- Cities: European models and worldwide creativity. The city as norm and exception ; Urbanization and urban systems ; Between deurbanization and hypergrowth ; Specialized cities, universal cities ; The golden age of port cities ; Colonial cities, treaty ports, imperial metropolises ; Internal spaces and undergrounds ; Symbolism, aesthetics, planning
- Frontiers: subjugation of space and challenges to nomadic life. Invasions and frontier processes ; The North American West ; South America and South Africa ; Eurasia ; Settler colonialism ; The conquest of nature: invasions of the biosphere
- Imperial systems and nation-states: the persistence of empires. Great-power politics and imperial expansion ; Paths to the nation-state ; What holds empires together? ; Empires: typology and comparisons ; Central and marginal cases ; Pax Britannica ; Living in empires
- International orders, wars, transnational movements: between two world wars. The thorny path to a global system of states ; Spaces of power and hegemony ; Peaceful Europe, wartorn Asia and Africa ; Diplomacy as political instrument and intercultural art ; Internationalisms and the emergence of universal norms
- Revolutions: from Philadelphia via Nanjing to Saint Petersburg. Revolutions
- from below, from above, from unexpected directions ; The revolutionary Atlantic ; The great turbulence in midcentury ; Eurasian revolutions, fin de siecle
- The state: minimal government, performances, and the iron cage. Order and communication: the state and the political ; Reinventions of monarchy ; Democracy ; Bureaucracies ; Mobilization and discipline ; Self-strengthening: the politics of peripheral defensive ; State and nationalism
- Energy and industry: who unbound Prometheus, when, and where? Industrialization ; Energy regimes: the century of coal ; Paths of economic development and nondevelopment ; Capitalism
- Labor: the physical basis of culture. The weight of rural labor ; Factory, construction site, office ; Toward emancipation: slaves, serfs, peasants ; The asymmetry of wage labor
- Networks: extension, density, holes. Communications ; Trade ; Money and finance
- Hierarchies: the vertical dimension of social space. Is a global social history possible? ; Aristocracies in (moderate) decline ; Bourgeois and quasi-bourgeois
- Knowledge: growth, concentration, distribution. World languages ; Literacy and schooling ; The university as a cultural export from Europe ; Mobility and translation ; Humanities and the study of the other
- Civilization and exclusion. The "civilized world" and its "mission" ; Slave emancipation and white supremacy ; Antiforeignism and "race war" ; Anti-Semitism
- Religion. Concepts of religion and the religious ; Secularization ; Religion and empire ; Reform and renewal
- Conclusion: the nineteenth century in history. Self-diagnostics ; Modernity ; Again: the beginning or end of a century ; Five characteristics of the century.