The transformation of the world : a global history of the nineteenth century /
Osterhammel, Jürgen,author.
Camiller, Patrick,translator.
"First published in Germany by C.H. Beck under the title Die Verwandlung der Welt, Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2009."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1021-1118) and index.
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 babsis of culture -- Networks: extension, density, holes -- Hierarchies: the vertical dimension of social space -- Knowledge: growth, concentration, distribution -- Civilization and exclusion -- Religion.
History, Modern