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Heyday (Hardcover)
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Heyday (Hardcover)
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Heyday brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in
modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was
reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global
economy expanded fivefold, millions of families emigrated to the
ends of the earth to carve out new lives, technology revolutionized
how people communicated, and a steamships and railways cut across
vast continents and oceans, shrinking the world and creating the
first global age. It was a decade of breathtaking and remorseless
transformation, fueled by the promise of exponential progress. In
Heyday, the acclaimed historian Ben Wilson recreates this time of
explosive energy and dizzying change, a rollercoaster ride of booms
and busts. The 1850s were witness to the laying of the first
undersea cable in 1851, the rush for gold from California to
Australia, and fleets of pirate vessels docked in Hong Kong harbor,
eager to take advantage of booming trade. The West's insatiable
hunger for land, natural resources, and new markets encouraged free
trade, bold exploration, and colonization like never before. Buoyed
by supreme self-confidence--as well as new technologies of
war--nations clashed across the globe, and indigenous peoples fell
victim to an assurgent West. Reckless economic expansion led to
lasting ecological damage, and to the demise of local cultures
which could not keep pace with the blistering pace of capitalism
and free trade. In Heyday we encounter Muslim guerrilla fighters in
the Caucasus Mountains and freelance empire-builders in the jungles
of Nicaragua, British free trade zealots preying on China and
samurai warriors resisting Western incursions in Japan. A dazzling
history of a tumultuous decade, Heyday traces the origins of our
globalized world order.
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