The Birth Of The Modern World, 1780 1914 by C.A. Bayly
Global Connections and Comparisons
This study traces the global transformations between roughly 1780 and 1914, arguing that the modern world emerged through interconnected processes of industrialization, imperial expansion, capital accumulation and the spread of new political ideologies. It adopts comparative and transnational perspectives to show how networks of trade, migration, communication and military power linked Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, producing uneven patterns of economic development, state formation and social change. Attention to technological innovations, scientific knowledge, demographic shifts and cultural exchange highlights the mutual impacts of metropolitan and colonial societies, the rise of nationalism and anti-colonial responses, and the tensions that culminated in early twentieth-century geopolitical rivalries.
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- 2004
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- British
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- English
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