The Birth of the Modern World, 1780 - 1914

• 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.

Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series