{"product_id":"the-birth-of-the-modern-world-1780-1914-isbn-9780631236160","title":"The Birth of the Modern World, 1780 - 1914","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at this time than is commonly thought.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores previously neglected sets of connections in world history.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReveals that the world was far more 'globalised', even at the beginning of this period, than is commonly thought.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSketches the 'ripple effects' of world crises such as the European revolutions and the American Civil War.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows how events in Asia, Africa and South America impacted on the world as a whole.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the great themes of the nineteenth-century world, including the rise of the modern state, industrialisation and liberalism.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChallenges and complements the regional and national approaches which have traditionally dominated history teaching and writing.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart of The Blackwell History of the World Series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.\u003c\/p\u003e  List Of Illustrations. \u003cp\u003eList Of Tables And Maps.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Editor’s Preface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Organization Of The Book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblem One: ‘Prime Movers’ And The Economic Factor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblem Two: Global History And Post-Modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblem Three: The Continuing ‘Riddle Of The Modern’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConforming To Standards In Bodily Practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding Out From The Body: Communications And Complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The End of The Old Regime:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Old Regimes And ‘Archaic Globalisation’:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeasants And Lords.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics Of Difference.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePowers On The Fringes Of States.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHarbingers Of New Political Formations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pre-History Of ‘Globalisation’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Archaic’ And Early Modern Globalisation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProspect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Passages From The Old Regimes To Modernity:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ‘Last Great Domestication’ And ‘Industrious Revolutions’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Patterns Of Afro-Asian Material Culture, Production And Trade.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Internal And External Limits Of Afro-Asian ‘Industrious Revolutions.’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrade, Finance And Innovation: European Competitive Advantages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Activist, Patriotic State Evolves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritical Publics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Development Of Asian And African Ecumenes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: ‘Backwardness’, Lags And Conjunctures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Convergent Revolutions, 1780–1820:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporaries Ponder The World Crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Summary Anatomy Of The World Crisis, C. 1720–1820.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSapping The Legitimacy Of The State: From France To China.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ideological Origins Of The Modern State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNationalities Versus States And Empires.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Third Revolution: Polite And Commercial Peoples Worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProspect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Modern World In Genesis:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Between World Revolutions, C. 1815–1860.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAssessing The ‘Wreck Of Nations’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBritish Maritime Supremacy, World Trade And Agrarian Recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmigration: A Safety Valve.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Losers In The ‘New World Order’, C. 1815–65.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems Of Hybrid Legitimacy – Whose State Was It?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe State Gains Strength – But Not Enough.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWars Of Legitimacy In Asia: A Summary Account.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic And Ideological Roots Of The Asian Revolutions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Years Of Hunger And Rebellion In Europe, 1848–51.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe American Civil War As A Global Event.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConvergence Or Difference?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReviewing The Argument.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Industrialisation And The New City:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorians, Industrialisation And Cities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Progress Of Industrialisation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCities As Centres Of Production And Consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Urban Impact Of The Global Crisis, 1780–1820.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRace And Class In The New City.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorking Class Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorld-Wide Urban Cultures And Their Critics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Nation, Empire And Ethnicity: C. 1860–1900:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Theories’ Of Nationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Was Nationalism?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhose Nationalism?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerpetuating Nationalisms: Memories, National Associations And Print.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Community To Nation: The Eurasian Empires.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhere We Stand With Nationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeoples Without States; Persecution Or Assimilation?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImperialism And Its History In The Late Nineteenth Century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimension Of The ‘New Imperialism’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA World Of Nation States?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Persistence Of Old Patterns Of Globalisation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Globalisation To Inter-Nationalim.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInter-Nationalism In Action.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: State And Society In The Age of Imperialism:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Myths And Technologies Of The Modern State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions Of The Modern State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe State And The Historians.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblems Of Defining The State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Modern State Takes Root; Geographical Dimensions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClaims To Justice And Symbols Of Power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe State’s Resources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe State’s Obligations To Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTools Of The State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eState, Economy And Nation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Balance Sheet: What Had The State Achieved?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Theory And Practice Of Liberalism, Rationalism, Socialism And Science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContextualising ‘Intellectual’ History.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Corruption Of The Righteous Republic: A Classic Theme.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRighteous Republics World-Wide.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Advent Of Liberalism And The Market: Western Exceptionalism?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiberalism And Land Reform: Radical Theory And Conservative Practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFree Trade Or National Political Economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepresenting The Peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecularism And Positivism: Trans-National Affinities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reception Of Socialism And Its Local Resonances.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience In Global Context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessionalisation At World Level.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Empires Of Religion:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligion In The Eyes Of Contemporaries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe View Of Recent Historians.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise Of New-Style Religion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModes Of Religious Domination, Their Agents And Their Limitations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormalising Religious Authority, Creating ‘Imperial Religions’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormalising Doctrines And Rites.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Expansion Of ‘Imperial Religions’ On Their Inner And Outer Frontiers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePilrimage And Globalisation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrinting And The Propagation Of Religion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligious Building.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligion And The Nation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Spirits Of The Age.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The World Of The Arts And The Imagination:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArts And Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHybridity And Uniformity In Art Across The Globe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLevelling Forces: The Market, The Everyday And The Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Arts Of The Emerging Nation And Empire 1760–1850.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArts And The People 1850–1914.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutside The West: Adaptation And Dependency.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture: A Mirror Of The City.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards World Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Arts And Societies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProspect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Change, Decay And Crisis:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Reconstitution Of Social Hierarchies:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChange And The Historians.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGender And Subordination In The ‘Liberal Age’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlavery’s Indian Summer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Peasant And Rural Labourer As Bond Serf.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Peasant That ‘Got Away’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Rural Subordination Survived.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Transformation Of ‘Gentries’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChallenges To The Gentry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoutes To Survival: State Service And Commerce.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMen Of ‘Fewer Board Acres’ In Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSurviving Supremacies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContinuity Or Change?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Destruction Of ‘Native Peoples’ And Ecological Depredation:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Is Meant By Native Peoples?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropeans And Native Peoples Before C. 1820.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNative Peoples In The Age Of Hiatus?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe White Deluge 1840–1890.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Deluge In Practice: New Zealand, South Africa And The U.S.A.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRuling Savage Natures: Recovery And Marginalisation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Conclusion: The Great Acceleration: C.1890–1914:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePredicting ‘Things To Come’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Agricultural Depression, Inter-Nationalism And The New Imperialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Strange Death Of Inter-National Liberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSumming Up: Globalisation And Crisis 1780–1914.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal Interconnections 1780–1914.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat Were The Motors Of Change?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePower In Global And Inter-National Networks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContested Uniformity And Universal Complexity Revisited.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAugust 1914.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"With its dazzling erudition and its vast scope, \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of distance-annihilating synthesis…At a stroke, all other general histories of the nineteenth century have become parochial…I cannot think of any living historian who could match this feat. The rest of us must simply applaud.\" \u003ci\u003eNiall Ferguson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, University of Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Bayly's work is awe-inspiring in its breadth and authority. To write a history of this kind, the author must possess a command of his sources... outstanding lucidity and a capacity to organise immensely complex and disparate material; above all, perhaps, a sense of proportion and the ability to balance striking detail against swooping vision. All these Bayly enjoys in abundance. Readers will enjoy an invigorating and enriching experience.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A truly global history, a work of great richness and jaw-dropping erudition that ranges effortlessly across the continents, laying out a complex, multifaceted picture of modernity. A brilliantly told global story.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A remarkable achievement. As an accomplished and innovative historian, Bayly has the rare ability not just to indicate the need for a 'global approach to historical change' but also to deliver, with scrupulous regard for the complexity of his subject. Empire and genocide, nationalism and modernity - these are grand themes enough for many a work of history, but they do not exhaust the range of Bayly's ambition and erudition. It is a tribute to Bayly's skill that his discussion can be read with as much profit by those who are familiar with the historical debates he engages with as by those previously innocent of them.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Chris Bayly's erudite and engrossing account of the global birthpangs of modernity is not only a landmark contribution to historical literature but, indirectly and without a hint of overt engagement, a pertinent addition to contemporary debates about globalisation and the world order. This is a book that historians, foreign policy elites and protagonists on both sides of the debate need to read.... Bayly has produced the most compelling and significant historical synthesis to appear for many years.\" \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eAn enormously important book in its approach to global history, it is also a riveting account of modern warfare, empire, nationalism and religion. Bayly holds the reader's attention across a history of kingdoms ... In turn, what he delivers is a fascinating challenge to contemporary understandings of globalisation, religious belief and the threads of Empire.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Christopher Bayly’s book will be essential reading for anyone seeking an historical angle on globalisation, and in particular on its impact on the world before 1914…No book I have ever read combines Bayly’s level of knowledge, clarity and insight on this vast and hugely important theme.\" \u003ci\u003eDominic Lieven, London School of Economics and Political Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The impact of this book will be as broad as its originality, currency, and force.\" \u003ci\u003eLinda Colley,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePrinceton University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This brilliant history of the 19th century offers remarkably lucid, supple analyses of the concepts around which this story revolves: modernity, nationalism, imperialism, the state, industrialisation. Bayly not only deftly summarises a startling range of complex previous literature, as well as integrating it effectively into his bigger picture, but also pushes many of those theoretical debates forward.\" \u003ci\u003eStephen Howe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book, by one of the foremost scholars of modern Indian history, is a sprawling smorgasbord ... a challenging and thought-provoking piece of world history.\" \u003ci\u003eJournal of World History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the Wolfson History Prize 2004\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the H-Soz-u-Kult Book Prize (World and International History)\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[A] magisterial synthesis\" \u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a brilliant book. Bayly's analytical approach merits high praise and the wealth of information he presents is admirable.\" \u003ci\u003eIberoamericana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eC.A. Bayly\u003c\/b\u003e is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He is winner of the 2004 Wolfson History Prize for his distinguished contribution to the writing of history. Covering the period 1780–1914, \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990168322277,"sku":"NP9780631236160","price":44.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631236160.jpg?v=1761786766","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-birth-of-the-modern-world-1780-1914-isbn-9780631236160","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}