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The first age of industrial globalization, an international history 1815-1918, Maartje Abbenhuis and Gordon Morrell

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The first age of industrial globalization, an international history 1815-1918, Maartje Abbenhuis and Gordon Morrell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The first age of industrial globalization

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1121098493

Responsibility statement

Maartje Abbenhuis and Gordon Morrell

Series statement

New approaches to international history

Sub title

an international history 1815-1918

Summary

This book offers an accessible and lively survey of the global history of the age of industrialization and globalization that arose in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and collapsed in the maelstrom of the First World War. Through a combination of industrialization, technological innovation and imperial expansion, the industrializing powers of the world helped to create inter-connected global space that left few regions untouched. In ten concise chapters, this book relays the major shifts in global power, economics and society, outlining the interconnections of global industrial, imperial and economic change for local and regional experiences, identities and politics. It finishes with an exposé on the catastrophic impact of the First World War on this global system. The First Age of Industrial Globalization weaves together the histories of industrialization, world economy, imperialism, international law, diplomacy and war, which historians usually treat as separate developments, and integrates them to offer a new analysis of an era of fundamental historical change. It shows that the revolutionary changes in politics, society and international affairs experienced in the 19th century were inter-connected developments. It is essential reading for any student of modern global history. --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Chapter 1: Contours of the first age of industrial globalization, 1815-1918. Chapter 2: Of concerts and restraints: the international diplomatic system, 1815-1856 Chapter 3: Industrializing empires and global capitalism after 1815 Chapter 4: Building globalization's infrastructure after 1856 Chapter 5: Migration and the spread of formal and informal empires Chapter 6: Global commodities and the environmental costs of industrial capitalism Chapter 7: A world of war after 1856 Chapter 8: Where local meets global: ideas and politics on a global scale Chapter 9: Industrial globalization and the origins of the First World War Chapter 10: Industrial globalization at total war, 1914-1918. Index

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