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List of illustrations --<br/>List of maps and tables --<br/>Series editor's preface --<br/>Acknowledgments --<br/>Notes and conventions --<br/>Introduction --<br/>Organization of the book --<br/>Problem 1: Prime movers and the economic factor --<br/>Problem 2: Global history and postmodernism --<br/>Problem 3: Continuing "riddle of the modern" --<br/>Conforming to standards: bodily practice --<br/>Building outward from the body: communications and complexity --<br/>Part 1: End Of The Old Regime --<br/>1: Old regimes and "Archaic globalization" --<br/>Peasants and lords --<br/>Politics of difference --<br/>Powers on the fringes of states --<br/>Harbingers of new political formations --<br/>Prehistory of globalization --<br/>Archaic and early modern globalization --<br/>Prospect --<br/>2: Passages from the old regimes to modernity --<br/>Last Greta Domestication and Industrious --<br/>Revolutions--<br/>New patterns of Afro-Asian material culture, production, and trade --<br/>Internal and external limits of Afro-Asian "Industrious Revolutions" --<br/>Trade, finance, and innovation: European competitive advantages --<br/>Activist, patriotic state evolves --<br/>Critical publics --<br/>Development of Asian and African publics --<br/>Conclusion: Backwardness, lags, and conjunctures --<br/>Prospect --<br/>3: Converging revolution, 1780-1820 --<br/>Contemporaries ponder the world crisis --<br/>Summary anatomy of the world crisis, 1720-1820 --<br/>Sapping the legitimacy of the state: from France to China --<br/>Ideological origins of the modern left and the modern state --<br/>Nationalities versus states and empires --<br/>Third revolution: Polite and commercial peoples worldwide --<br/>Prospect --<br/>Part 2: Modern World In Genesis --<br/>4: Between world revolutions, c 1815-1865 --<br/>Assessing the wreck of nations --<br/>British maritime supremacy, world trade, and the revival of agriculture --<br/>Emigration: a safety valve? --<br/>Losers in the new world order, 1815-1865 --<br/>Problems of hybrid legitimacy: whose state was it? --<br/>State gains strength, but not enough --<br/>Wars of legitimacy in Asia: a summary account --<br/>Economic and ideological roots of the Asian Revolutions --<br/>Years of hunger and rebellion in Europe, 1848-1851 --<br/>American Civil War as a global event --<br/>Convergence or difference? --<br/>Reviewing the argument --<br/>5: Industrialization and the new city --<br/>Historians, industrialization, and cities --<br/>Progress of industrialization --<br/>Poverty and the absence of industry --<br/>Cities as centers of production, consumption, and politics --<br/>Urban impact of the global crisis, 1780-1820 --<br/>Race and class in the new cities --<br/>Working-class politics --<br/>Worldwide urban cultures and their critics --<br/>Conclusion --<br/>6: Nation, empire, and ethnicity, c 1860-1900 --<br/>Theories of nationalism --<br/>When was nationalism? --<br/>Whose nation? --<br/>Perpetuating nationalisms: memories, national associations, and print --<br/>From community to nation: the Eurasian empires --<br/>Where we stand with nationalism --<br/>Peoples without states: persecution or assimilation? --<br/>Imperialism and its history: the late nineteenth century --<br/>Dimensions of the new imperialism --<br/>World of nation-states? --<br/>Persistence of archaic globalization --<br/>From globalization to internationalism --<br/>Internationalism in practice --<br/>Conclusion --<br/>Part 3: State And Society In The Age Of Imperialism --<br/>7: Myths and technologies of the modern state --<br/>Dimensions of the modern state --<br/>State and the historians --<br/>Problems of defining the state --<br/>Modern state takes root: geographical dimensions --<br/>Claims to justice and symbols of power --<br/>State's resources --<br/>State's obligations to society --<br/>Tools of the state --<br/>State, economy, and nation --<br/>Balance sheet: what had the state achieved? --<br/>8: Theory and practice of liberalism, rationalism, socialism, and science --<br/>Contextualizing intellectual history --<br/>Corruption of the righteous republic: a classic theme --<br/>Righteous republics worldwide --<br/>Advent of liberalism and the market: western exceptionalism? --<br/>Liberalism and land reform: radical theory and conservative practice --<br/>Free trade or national political economy? --<br/>Representing the peoples --<br/>Secularism and positivism: transnational affinities --<br/>Reception of socialism and its local resonances --<br/>Science in global context --<br/>Professionalization at world level --<br/>Conclusion --<br/>9: Empires of religion --<br/>Religion in the eyes of contemporaries --<br/>View of recent historians --<br/>Rise of new-style religion --<br/>Modes of religious dominion, their agents and their limitations --<br/>Formalizing religious authority, creating imperial religions --<br/>Formalizing doctrines and rites --<br/>Expansion of imperial religions on their inner and outer frontiers --<br/>Pilgrimage and globalization --<br/>Printing and the propagation of religion --<br/>Religious building --<br/>Religion and the nation --<br/>Conclusion: the spirits of the age --<br/>10: World of the arts and the imagination --<br/>Arts and politics --<br/>Hybridity and uniformity in art across the globe --<br/>Leveling forces: the market, the everyday, and the museum --<br/>Arts of the emerging nation, 1760-1850 --<br/>Arts and the people, 1850-1914 --<br/>Outside the west: adaptation and dependency --<br/>Architecture: a mirror of the city --<br/>Towards world literature? --<br/>Conclusion: Arts and societies --<br/>Prospect --<br/>Part 4: Change, Decay, And Crisis --<br/>11: Reconstitution of social hierarchies --<br/>Change and the historians --<br/>Gender and subordination in the liberal age --<br/>Slavery's Indian summer --<br/>Peasant and rural laborer as bond serf --<br/>Peasants that got away --<br/>Why rural subordination survived --<br/>Transformation of gentries --<br/>Challenges to the gentry --<br/>Routes to survival: state service and commerce --<br/>Men of fewer broad acres in Europe --<br/>Surviving supremacies --<br/>Continuity or change? --<br/>12: Destruction of native peoples and ecological depredation --<br/>What is meant by Native peoples? --<br/>Europeans and Native peoples before c 1820 --<br/>Native peoples in the age of hiatus --<br/>White deluge, 1840-1890 --<br/>Deluge in practice: New Zealand, South Africa, and the USA --<br/>Ruling savage natures: recovery and marginalization --<br/>13: Conclusion: Great acceleration, c 1890-1914 --<br/>Predicting things to come --<br/>Agricultural depression, internationalism, and the new imperialism --<br/>New nationalism --<br/>Strange death of international liberalism --<br/>Summing up: globalization and crisis, 1780-1914 --<br/>Global comparisons and connections, 1780-1914: conclusion --<br/>What were the motors of change? --<br/>Power in global and international networks --<br/>Contested uniformity and universal complexity revisited --<br/>August 1914 --<br/>Notes --<br/>Bibliography --<br/>Index. Old regimes and "archaic globalization" --<br/>Passages from the old regimes to modernity --<br/>Converging revolutions, 1780-1820 --<br/>Between world revolutions, c.1815-1865 --<br/>Industrialization and the New City --<br/>Nation, empire, and ethnicity, c.1860-1900 --<br/>pt. 3. State and society in the age of imperialism --<br/>Myths and technologies of the modern state --<br/>The theory and practice of liberalism, rationalism, socialism, and science --<br/>Empires of religion --<br/>The world of the arts and the imagination --<br/>The reconstitution of social hierarchies --<br/>The destruction of native peoples and ecological depredation --<br/>Conclusion : the great acceleration, c.1890-1914. |
