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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Alemán |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | America in the world.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Part one. Approaches
- part two. Panoramas
- part three. Themes.
- 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.