The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914 Global Connections and Comparisons |
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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
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Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $73.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionCovering 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 great themes of the nineteenth-century world – the rise of the modern state, industrialisation, liberalism, imperialism, and the progress of world religions – is untouched by the novel perspectives of this compelling new history.