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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century, written by Jürgen Osterhammel, translated by Patrick Camiller

The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century, written by Jürgen... The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. xxii + 1192 pp. isbn: 978-0-691-14745-1 (Hardcover)Jürgen Osterhammel’s celebrated global history of the nineteenth century, available in Patrick Camiller’s excellent translation, is an ambitious attempt to chronicle all the ways in which the nineteenth century changed the world. “Transformations” might have been a more appropriate title, given the detailed treatment of a mind-boggling array of unrelated changes. Along the way, Osterhammel considers the global synchronization of time and space, the proliferation of “communication networks” of science and religion, the spread of new technologies of travel and preservation, the institutionalization of new academic disciplines, the “metamorphosis of empires,” and many different revolutions, “from Philadelphia via Nanjing to Saint Petersburg.” He writes that “more than in any other era, politics in the nineteenth century was revolutionary politics” (514). To the extent that there is an overarching direction to these transformations, this book is about global integration and elaborates the ways in which the nineteenth century fused the world into an interconnected whole. Osterhammel also considers ways in which the growing frequency of contacts among diverse places provoked new conflicts, none more widespread and violent http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Review of World Histories Brill

The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century, written by Jürgen Osterhammel, translated by Patrick Camiller

Beecher, David I. L.
Asian Review of World Histories , Volume 5 (2): 3 – Oct 4, 2017
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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. xxii + 1192 pp. isbn: 978-0-691-14745-1 (Hardcover)Jürgen Osterhammel’s celebrated global history of the nineteenth century, available in Patrick Camiller’s excellent translation, is an ambitious attempt to chronicle all the ways in which the nineteenth century changed the world. “Transformations” might have been a more appropriate title, given the detailed treatment of a mind-boggling array of unrelated changes. Along the way, Osterhammel considers the global synchronization of time and space, the proliferation of “communication networks” of science and religion, the spread of new technologies of travel and preservation, the institutionalization of new academic disciplines, the “metamorphosis of empires,” and many different revolutions, “from Philadelphia via Nanjing to Saint Petersburg.” He writes that “more than in any other era, politics in the nineteenth century was revolutionary politics” (514). To the extent that there is an overarching direction to these transformations, this book is about global integration and elaborates the ways in which the nineteenth century fused the world into an interconnected whole. Osterhammel also considers ways in which the growing frequency of contacts among diverse places provoked new conflicts, none more widespread and violent

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