The transformation of the world : a global history of the nineteenth century
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- ISBN: 9780691147451
- ISBN: 0691147450
- ISBN: 9781400849949
- ISBN: 1400849942
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xxii, 1167 pages ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
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General Note: | "First published in Germany by C.H. Beck under the title Die Verwandlung der Welt, Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2009." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Language Note: | Text in English. |
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Kirtland Community College Library | D 358 .O884 2014 | 30775305486285 | General Collection | Available | - |