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The birth of the modern world, 1780-1914 : global connections and comparisons / C.A. Bayly.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Blackwell history of the worldPublication details: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.Description: xxiv, 540 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0631187995 (alk. paper)
  • 0631236163 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • D295 .B28 2004
Contents:
pt. 1. The end of the old regime -- Old regimes and "archaic globalization" -- Passages from the old regimes to modernity -- Converging revolutions, 1780-1820 -- pt. 2. The modern world in Genesis -- Between world revolutions, c.1815-1865 -- Industrialization and the New City -- Nation, empire, and ethnicity, c.1860-1900 -- pt. 3. State and society in the age of imperialism -- Myths and technologies of the modern state -- The theory and practice of liberalism, rationalism, socialism, and science -- Empires of religion -- The world of the arts and the imagination -- pt. 4. Change, decay, and crisis -- The reconstitution of social hierarchies -- The destruction of native peoples and ecological depredation -- Conclusion: the great acceleration, c.1890-1914.
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Frykenberg Collection ARCH FRBC 909.8 B359B (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 046210

Includes bibliographical references (p. 514-532) and index.

pt. 1. The end of the old regime -- Old regimes and "archaic globalization" -- Passages from the old regimes to modernity -- Converging revolutions, 1780-1820 -- pt. 2. The modern world in Genesis -- Between world revolutions, c.1815-1865 -- Industrialization and the New City -- Nation, empire, and ethnicity, c.1860-1900 -- pt. 3. State and society in the age of imperialism -- Myths and technologies of the modern state -- The theory and practice of liberalism, rationalism, socialism, and science -- Empires of religion -- The world of the arts and the imagination -- pt. 4. Change, decay, and crisis -- The reconstitution of social hierarchies -- The destruction of native peoples and ecological depredation -- Conclusion: the great acceleration, c.1890-1914.

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