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Book Description
Covering the period 1780-1914, The Birth of the Modern World 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.
From the Author
C. A. Bayly is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.
The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (Blackwell History of the World),C. A. Bayly,Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated,0631236163,18th century,19th century,20th century,History,History - General History,History, Modern,History: World,Modern - 18th Century,Modern - 19th Century,Revolutions,World - General,GLOBALIZATION,HISTORY, MODERN_19TH CENTURY,HISTORY, MODERN_20TH CENTURY,History / Modern / 19th Century,World history: First World War,World history: c 1750 to c 1900,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900,c 1900 - c 1914
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