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Remaking the Modern World 1900 - 2015
Global Connections and Comparisons
Series: Blackwell History of the World
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The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's 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.
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The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's 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.
Remaking the Modern World 1900 - 2015 is written by one of the leading historians of his generation, an early intellectual leader in the study of World History. It weaves a clear narrative history that explores the themes of politics, economics, social, cultural, and intellectual life throughout the long twentieth century.
The book identifies the themes of state, capital, and communication as key drivers of change on a global scale in the last century and explores the impact of those ideas. It interrogates whether warfare was really the pre-eminent driving force of twentieth-century history, and examines what other ideas shaped the course of history in this period. The causes behind the resurgence of local conflict, rather than global-scale conflict, in the years since the turn of the millennium are also explored.
Additionally, the narrative delves into the story of inequality, a story that has shaped and been shaped by the events of the last hundred years.
Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series
The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time.
The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.
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The book is lauded for its thought-provoking approach and its global perspective on familiar historical topics, offering fresh interpretations. It is particularly valuable for students and historians in various disciplines interested in expanding their understanding of modern history.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781405187169
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 September 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Audience: Tertiary education
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Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 168.0mm
Height: 239.0mm
Weight: 635g
Pages: 432
About the Author
C.A. Bayly (1945-2015) was Vere Harmsworth Professor of History in the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, from 1970 until 2015, and a leader in the field of global history. He won the Wolfson History Prize for his distinguished contribution to History in 2004 and received a knighthood for his services to the profession in 2007. Among his other significant works are The Birth of the Modern World: Global Connections and Comparisons, 1780-1914 (Wiley, 2004); Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (2005) and Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia (2007), both co-authored with T.N. Harper; and Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism Empire (2012). He was a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, and the Academia Europaea.In 2016 he became the first posthumous recipient of the Toynbee Prize.
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