TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bayly,C.A.
TI  - The birth of the modern world, 1780-1914: global connections and comparisons 
SN  - 0631187995 (alk. paper)
AV  - D295 .B28 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Malden, MA
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - Revolutions
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Globalization
N1  - 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
ER  -