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

Author: Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan)

Imprint:Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Descriptionxxiv, 540 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Note:Old regimes and "archaic globalization" -- Passages from the oldregimes to modernity -- Converging revolutions, 1780-1820 -- Between world revolutions, c.1815-1865 -- Industrialization and the new city -- Nation, empire, and ethnicity, c. 1860-1900 -- 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 -- The reconstitution of social hierarchies -- The destruction of native peoples and ecological depredation -- Conclusion: the great acceleration, c.1890-1914.

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

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