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The Birth of the Modern World: 1780-1914ISBN: 978-0-631-23616-0
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568 pages
December 2003, ©2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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- A thematic history of the world from 1780, the pivotal year of the revolutionary age, to the First World War, which ripped apart the contemporary system of states and empires.
- Explores previously neglected sets of connections in world history.
- Reveals that the world was far more ‘globalised’, even at the beginning of this period, than is commonly thought.
- Sketches the ‘ripple effects’ of world crises such as the European revolutions and the American Civil War.
- Shows how events in Asia, Africa and South America impacted on the world as a whole.
- Considers the great themes of the nineteenth-century world, including the rise of the modern state, industrialisation and liberalism.
- Challenges and complements the regional and national approaches which have traditionally dominated history teaching and writing.
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