A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation
of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a
world in transition. Jurgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has
been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond
conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era,
presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and
towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex forces
that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century,"
taking readers from New York to New Delhi, from the Latin American
revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and promise
of Europe's transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by
nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet. Osterhammel describes a
world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and
the railways. He explores the changing relationship between human
beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the
role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new
nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth
century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much more.
This is the highly anticipated English edition of the spectacularly
successful and critically acclaimed German book, which is also
being translated into Chinese, Polish, Russian, and French.
Indispensable for any historian, The Transformation of the World
sheds important new light on this momentous epoch, showing how the
nineteenth century paved the way for the global catastrophes of the
twentieth century, yet how it also gave rise to pacifism,
liberalism, the trade union, and a host of other crucial
developments.
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