The Transformation of the World (eBook)

A Global History of the Nineteenth Century

Jürgen Osterhammel (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4994-9 (ISBN)

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Jürgen Osterhammel is professor of modern and contemporary history at the University of Konstanz. He is the coauthor of Globalization: A Short History and a coeditor of A History of the World.

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A panoramic global history of the nineteenth centuryA monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jurgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the "e;long nineteenth century,"e; taking readers from New York to New Delhi, from the Latin American revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and promise of Europe's transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet. Osterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railways. He explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much more.This is the highly anticipated English edition of the spectacularly successful and critically acclaimed German book, which is also being translated into Chinese, Polish, Russian, and French. Indispensable for any historian, The Transformation of the World sheds important new light on this momentous epoch, showing how the nineteenth century paved the way for the global catastrophes of the twentieth century, yet how it also gave rise to pacifism, liberalism, the trade union, and a host of other crucial developments.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.4.2014
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Übersetzer: Patrick Camiller
• Zusatzinfo: 6 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Adviser • Africa • Agriculture • Alexander von Humboldt • Algeria • Atlantic World • Backwardness • Barbarian • Bourgeoisie • Boxer Rebellion • British Empire • Capitalism • Central Asia • Central Europe • China • Civilization • Civil Society • Colonial empire • Colonialism • Colonial War • Colonization • colony • Confucianism • Continental Europe • Decolonization • Democratization • Early Modern Europe • early modern period • East Asia • Emigration • Employment • Europe • Franco-Prussian War • German Reich • Globalization • Great Power • hegemony • Historiography • Ideology • imperial government • imperialism • Indigenous peoples • Indonesia • industrialisation • Institution • International Relations • John Stuart Mill • laborer • Latin America • Liberalism • Manchuria • Marxism • Meiji period • meiji restoration • middle class • Ming Dynasty • Modernity • Myanmar • Napoleon • Napoleon III • nation state • Nobility • North America • Oligarchy • Ottoman Empire • Otto von Bismarck • peasant • Politician • Politics • prussia • Qing Dynasty • Racism • Requirement • Ruler • Russian Empire • Slavery • Social History • Sociology • Southeast Asia • Sovereignty • State (polity) • steamship • Superiority (short story) • Supporter • Taiping Rebellion • Tax • Technology • The Other Hand • Treaty • unrest • Upper Class • urbanization • Wealth • Western Culture • Western Europe • Westernization • Western World • World History • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4994-2 / 1400849942
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4994-9 / 9781400849949