Book Details
Format
eBook
Pages
348
Language
English
Published
Oct 12, 2014
Publisher
Campus Verlag
ISBN-10
1322189331
ISBN-13
9781322189338
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.
Genres
Action & Adventure