The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (America in the World, 20) Paperback - 2015
by Osterhammel, Jürgen
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- Title The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (America in the World, 20)
- Author Osterhammel, Jürgen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 1192
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Date 2015-09-14
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 2310230187
- ISBN 9780691169804
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
From the rear cover
"Jrgen Osterhammel is the Braudel of the nineteenth century. His global panorama is a triumph of the historian's craft. In elegant and lucid prose, he examines, across the entire world, the Janus face of the era: both distant past and yet also origin of our contemporary condition."--Jonathan Sperber, author of Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
"The comparison with Braudel's magnum opus is not misplaced. Osterhammel's The Transformation of the World is a brilliant work of historical imagination, of absolutely show-stealing erudition, and of wide-apertured original insight! Reflecting on space and time, empire and slavery, war and peace, economy and diplomacy, monarchy and opera, and much else, Osterhammel changes our whole understanding of the nineteenth century."--Helmut W. Smith, Vanderbilt University
"This big, kaleidoscopic book follows the many strands of change over the course of a long century of transformation. It belongs on a short list of key resources for understanding the origins of many of the challenges we face today."--John E. Wills, Jr., University of Southern California
"Arguably the most important book by a German historian to be published in the past quarter century. It is a truly magisterial account of the global history of the nineteenth century, powerfully argued and beautifully rendered."--Sven Beckert, author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896
