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The birth of the modern world, 1780-1914 : global connections and comparisons
- Title
- The birth of the modern world, 1780-1914 : global connections and comparisons / C.A. Bayly.
- Author
- Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan)
- Publication
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
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- Description
- xxiv, 540 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- The Blackwell history of the world
- Uniform Title
- Blackwell history of the world.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 488-532) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. The End of the Old Regime -- 1. Old Regimes and "Archaic Globalization" -- 2. Passages from the Old Regimes to Modernity -- 3. Converging Revolution, 1780-1820 -- Pt. II. The Modern World in Genesis -- 4. Between World Revolutions, c.1815-1865 -- 5. Industrialization and the New City -- 6. Nation, Empire, and Ethnicity, c.1860-1900 -- Pt. III. State and Society in the Age of Imperialism -- 7. Myths and Technologies of the Modern State -- 8. The Theory and Practice of Liberalism, Rationalism, Socialism, and Science -- 9. Empires of Religion -- 10. The World of the Arts and the Imagination -- Pt. IV. Change, Decay, and Crisis -- 11. The Reconstitution of Social Hierarchies -- 12. The Destruction of Native Peoples and Ecological Depredation -- 13. Conclusion: The Great Acceleration, c.1890-1914.
- ISBN
- 0631187995 (alk. paper)
- 0631236163 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780631236160
- LCCN
- 2003001453
- OCLC
- ocm51728655
- SCSB-4872980
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries