Remaking the Modern World 1900 - 2015: Global Connections and Comparisons

This book is a sequel to C.A. Bayly's The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, and explores global history since the First World War. It offers a coherent, comparative overview of developments in politics, economics, and society, identifying state, capital, and communication as key drivers of change. It interrogates whether warfare was the pre-eminent driving force of twentieth-century history and explores the causes behind the resurgence of local conflict. The book is part of The Blackwell History of the World Series, intended to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 424 pages
\n Publication date: 14 September 2018
\n Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, is a groundbreaking sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's seminal work, exploring global history since the First World War. Written by one of the foremost historians of his generation, this comprehensive and sophisticated study offers a coherent and comparative overview of developments in politics, economics, and society at large.

Spanning a vast expanse of time, this work weaves a clear narrative history that delves into the themes of politics, economics, social, cultural, and intellectual life throughout the long twentieth century. It identifies the themes of state, capital, and communication as key drivers of change on a global scale, and explores the profound impact of these ideas.

Interrogating the conventional notion that warfare was the pre-eminent driving force of twentieth-century history, the book delves into the causes behind the resurgence of local conflict, rather than global-scale conflict, in the years since the turn of the millennium. It explores the complex interplay of factors that have shaped and been shaped by the events of the last hundred years, shedding light on the narrative of inequality that has defined and been shaped by this period.

Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series, this ambitious series aims to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past for every curious person in every corner of the world. Comprising approximately two dozen volumes, the series will offer synoptic views of the history of particular regions as well as consider the world as a whole during specific periods of time.

The volumes in the series are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history, as well as institutional development and political change. Each volume provides a systematic account of the historical events, trends.

\n Weight: 736g\n
Dimension: 173 x 243 x 19 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781405187169\n \n