Publication Date
2004
Publication Place
Malden, MA -
Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
Subject
Revolutions -- History -- 18th century., History, Modern -- 19th century, History, Modern -- 20th century, Globalization.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
540
Physical Dimensions
26 cm
Library
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Record ID
3100001~!114475~!4714
Library Location
HS-SS Stacks
Date
2004
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 514-532) and index.. 114475. xxiv, 540 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm.
İçindekiler
Introduction -- Problem one: prime movers and the economic factor -- Problem two: global history and postmodernism -- Problem three: continuing "riddle of the modern" -- Conforming to standards: bodily practice -- Building outward from the body: communications and complexity -- End Of The Old Regime. Old regimes and "archaic globalization" -- Passages from the old regimes to modernity -- Converging revolution, 1780-1820 -- Modern World In Genesis. Between world revolutions, c 1815-1865 -- Industrialization and the new city -- Nation, empire, and ethnicity, c 1860-1900 -- State And Society In The Age Of Imperialism. Myths and technologies of the modern state -- Theory and practice of liberalism, rationalism, socialism, and science -- Empires of religion -- World of the arts and the imagination -- Change, Decay, And Crisis. Reconstitution of social hierarchies -- Destruction of native peoples and ecological depredation -- Conclusion: great acceleration, c 1890-1914.
ISBN
0631187995, 9780631187998, 0631236163, 9780631236160
Seri
The Blackwell history of the world, Blackwell history of the world.
