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The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914

Global Connections and Comparisons

The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914( )
Author: Bayly, C. A.
Series title:Blackwell History of the World Ser.
ISBN:978-0-631-18799-8
Publication Date:Dec 2003
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Imprint:Wiley-Blackwell
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $73.95
Book Description:

Covering the period 1780 –1914, The Birth of the Modern World shows how events in Asia, Africa, and South America – from the decline of the eighteenth-century Islamic empires to the anti-European Boxer rebellion of 1900 in China – had a direct impact on European and American history. And conversely, how the “ripple effects ” of crises such as the European revolutions and the American Civil War worked their way through to the rest of the world. None of the...
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Book Details
Pages:568
Detailed Subjects: History / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions
History / Modern / 19Th Century
History / Modern / 20Th Century / General
Political Science / Globalization
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.669 x 9.594 Inches
Book Weight:2.495 Pounds
Author Biography
Bayly, C. A. (Author)
Christopher Alan Bayly was born on May 18, 1945 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom. He graduated from St Antony's College. He was the pre-eminent historian of India and the British Empire and a pioneer of the field of global history. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime including The Local Roots of Indian Politics; Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars; Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire; Imperial Meridian; Empire and Information; The Origins of Nationality in South Asia; The Birth of the Modern World; and Recovering Liberties. In 2005, he received the Wolfson prize for history for his entire body of work. In 2007, he was the first scholar to be knighted "for services to history outside of Europe." He died of a heart attack on April 18, 2015 at the age of 69.

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