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Remaking the modern world 1900-2015 : global connections and comparisons
- Title
- Remaking the modern world 1900-2015 : global connections and comparisons / C.A. Bayly.
- Author
- Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan)
- Publication
- Hoboken, NJ, USA : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xx, 400 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Baylys ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study explores global history since the First World War, offering a coherent, comparative overview of developments in politics, economics, and society at large. --Publisher
- Series Statement
- The Blackwell history of the world
- Uniform Title
- Blackwell history of the world.
- Alternative Title
- Birth of the modern world, 1780-1914.
- Subject
- Note
- "The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914"--Page 4 of cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-378) and index.
- Contents
- Christopher Bayly and the making of world history -- Preface -- Introduction -- The world crisis, c.1900-1930 : Europe and the "Middle East" -- The world crisis, c.1900-1930 : Africa, Asia and beyond -- Authoritarianism and dictatorship worldwide, c.1900-1950 -- Democracies and their discontents, c.1900-1950 -- The depression : state intervention and popular resistance -- The Second World War and its consequences -- Peripheral conflicts and the end of old regimes, c.1945-1955 -- America's hegemony and colonialism's finale, mid-1950s to 1970s -- The "tipping point" : world politics and the shock of the "long 1980s" -- The expansion of human knowledge : the twentieth-century person and society -- The self and human society -- Arts, literature and entertainment : crisis and recovery -- Religion : contestation and revival -- A century of killing and a century of crime -- Internationalism and transnationalism in theory and practice -- The shadow of empire in the modern world -- The pressure of people -- Between two centuries : economic liberalisation and political fragmentation, c.1991 to 2015 -- Conclusion : periods and prophecy.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-637
- ISBN
- 9781405187152
- 1405187158
- 9781405187169
- 1405187166
- LCCN
- 2018008893
- 40028588694
- OCLC
- 1043967437
- Author
- Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan), author.
- Title
- Remaking the modern world 1900-2015 : global connections and comparisons / C.A. Bayly.
- Publisher
- Hoboken, NJ, USA : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Blackwell history of the worldBlackwell history of the world.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-378) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-2099
- Added Title
- Birth of the modern world, 1780-1914.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan), author. Remaking the modern world 1900-2015 Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2018 9781119268734 (DLC) 2018032102
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028588694
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-637