The Birth of the Modern World: 1780-1914 (Blackwell History of the World)

Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps and Tables
Series Editor\'s Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes and Conventions
Introduction
....The Organization of the Book
....Problem One: \"Prime Movers\" and the Economic Factor
....Problem Two: Global History and Postmodernism
....Problem Three: The Continuing \"Riddle of the Modem
....Conforming to Standards: Bodily Practice
....Building Outward from the Body: Communications and Complexity
PART I. THE END OF THE OLD REGIME
....1. Old Regimes and \"Archaic Globalization\"
........Peasants and Lords
........The Politics of Difference
........Powers on the Fringes of States
........Harbingers of New Political Formations
........The Prehistory of \"Globalization\"
........Archaic and Early Modem Globalization
........Prospect
....2. Passages from the Old Regimes to Modernity
........The Last \"Great Domestication\" and \"Industrious Revolutions\"
........New Patterns of Afro-Asian Material Culture, Production, and Trade
........The Internal and External Limits of Afro-Asian \"Industrious Revolutions\"
........Trade, Finance, and Innovation: European Competitive Advantages
........The Activist, Patriotic State Evolves
........Critical Publics
........The Development of Asian and African Publics
........Conclusion: \"Backwardness,\" Lags, and Conjunctures
........Prospect
....3. Converging Revolutions, 1780-1820
........Contemporaries Ponder the World Crisis
........A Summary Anatomy of the World Crisis, 1720-1820
........Sapping the Legitimacy of the State: From France to China
........The Ideological Origins of the Modern Left and the Modern State
........Nationalities versus States and Empires
........The Third Revolution: Polite and Commercial Peoples Worldwide
........Prospect
PART II. THE MODERN WORLD IN GENESIS
....4. Between World Revolutions, c-1865
........Assessing the \"Wreck of Nations
........British Maritime Supremacy, World Trade, and the Revival of Agriculture
........Emigration: A Safety Valve?
........The Losers in the \"New World Order,\" 1815-1865
........Problems of Hybrid Legitimacy: Whose State Was It?
........The State Gains Strength, but not Enough
........Wars of Legitimacy in Asia: A Summary Account
........Economic and Ideological Roots of the Asian Revolutions
........The Years of Hunger and Rebellion in Europe, 1848-1851
........The American Civil War as a Global Event
........Convergence or Difference?
........Reviewing the Argument
....5. Industrialization and the New City
........Historians, Industrialization, and Cities
........The Progress of Industrialization
........Poverty and the Absence of Industry
........Cities as Centers of Production, Consumption, and Politics
........The Urban Impact of the Global Crisis, 1780-1820
........Race and Class in the New Cities
........Working-Class Politics
........Worldwide Urban Cultures and their Critics
........Conclusion
....6. Nation, Empire, and Ethnicity, c-1900
........Theories of Nationalism
........When was Nationalism?
........Whose Nation?
........Perpetuating Nationalisms: Memories, National Associations, and Print
........From Community to Nation: The Eurasian Empires
........Where We Stand with Nationalism
........Peoples without States: Persecution or Assimilation?
........Imperialism and its History: The Late Nineteenth Century
........Dimensions of the \"New Imperialism
........A World of Nation-States?
........The Persistence of Archaic Globalization
........From Globalization to Internationalism
........Internationalism in Practice
........Conclusion
PART III. STATE AND SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
....7. Myths and Technologies of the Modem State
........Dimensions of the Modem State
........The State and the Historians
........Problems of Defining the State
........The Modem State Takes Root: Geographical Dimensions
........Claims to Justice and Symbols of Power
........The State\'s Resources
........The State\'s Obligations to Society
........Tools of the State
........State, Economy, and Nation
........A Balance Sheet: What had the State Achieved?
....8. The Theory and Practice of Liberalism, Rationalism, Socialism, and Science
........Contextualizing Intellectual History
........The Corruption of the Righteous Republic: A Classic Theme
........Righteous Republics Worldwide
........The Advent of Liberalism and the Market: Western Exceptionalism?
........Liberalism and Land Reform: Radical Theory and Conservative Practice
........Free Trade or National Political Economy?
........Representing the Peoples
........Secularism and Positivism: Transnational Affinities
........The Reception of Socialism and its Local Resonances
........Science in Global Context
........Professionalization at World Level
........Conclusion
....9. Empires of Religion
........Religion in the Eyes of Contemporaries
........The View of Recent Historians
........The Rise of New-Style Religion
........Modes of Religious Dominion, their Agents and their Limitations
........Formalizing Religious Authority, Creating \"Imperial Religions
........Formalizing Doctrines and Rites
........The Expansion of \"Imperial Religions\" on their Inner and Outer Frontiers
........Pilgrimage and Globalization
........Printing and the Propagation of Religion
........Religious Building
........Religion and the Nation
........Conclusion: The Spirits of the Age
....10. The World of the Arts and the Imagination
........Arts and Politics
........Hybridity and Uniformity in Art across the Globe
........Leveling Forces: The Market, the Everyday, and the Museum
........The Arts of the Emerging Nation, 1760-1850
........Arts and the People, 1850-1914
........Outside the West: Adaptation and Dependency
........Architecture: A Mirror of the City
........Towards World Literature?
........Conclusion: Arts and Societies
........Prospect
PART IV. CHANGE, DECAY, AND CRISIS
....11. The Reconstitution of Social Hierarchies
........Change and the Historians
........Gender and Subordination in the \"Liberal Age
........Slavery\'s Indian Summer
........The Peasant and Rural Laborer as Bond Serf
........The Peasants that Got Away
........Why Rural Subordination Survived
........The Transformation of \"Gentries\"
........Challenges to the Gentry
........Routes to Survival: State Service and Commerce
........Men of Fewer \"Broad Acres\" in Europe
........Surviving Supremacies
........Continuity or Change?
....12. The Destruction of Native Peoples and Ecological Depredation
........What is Meant by \"Native Peoples\"?
........Europeans and Native Peoples before c
........Native Peoples in the \"Age of Hiatus
........The White Deluge, 1840-1890
........The Deluge in Practice: New Zealand, South Africa, and the USA
........Ruling Savage Natures: Recovery and Marginalization
....13. Conclusion: The Great Acceleration, c-1914
........Predicting \"Things to Come\"
........The Agricultural Depression, Internationalism, and the New Imperialism
........The New Nationalism
........The Strange Death of International Liberalism
........Summing Up: Globalization and Crisis, 1780-1914
........Global Comparisons and Connections, 1780-1914: Conclusion
........What Were the Motors of Change?
........Power in Global and International Networks
........Contested Uniformity and Universal Complexity Revisited
........August 1914
Notes
Bibliography
Index