A World Connecting: 1870–1945

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Emily S. Rosenberg
Harvard University Press, Oct 30, 2012 - Business & Economics - 1161 pages

Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. New technologies erased distance and accelerated the global exchange of people, products, and ideas on an unprecedented scale. A World Connecting focuses on an era when growing global interconnectedness inspired new ambitions but also stoked anxieties and rivalries that would erupt in two world wars—the most destructive conflicts in human history.

In five interpretive essays, distinguished historians Emily S. Rosenberg, Charles S. Maier, Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Dirk Hoerder, Steven C. Topik, and Allen Wells illuminate the tensions that emerged from intensifying interconnectedness and attempts to control and shape the effects of sweeping change. Each essay provides an overview of a particular theme: modern state-building; imperial encounters; migration; commodity chains; and transnational social and cultural networks. With the emergence of modern statehood and the fluctuating fate of empires came efforts to define and police territorial borders. As people, products, capital, technologies, and affiliations flowed across uneasily bounded spaces, the world both came together and fell apart in unexpected, often horrifying, and sometimes liberating ways.

A World Connecting goes beyond nations, empires, and world wars to capture the era’s defining feature: the profound and disruptive shift toward an ever more rapidly integrating world.

 

Contents

Leviathan 20 Inventing Modern Statehood
27
Empires and the Reach of the Global
283
Migrations and Belongings
433
Commodity Chains in a Global Economy
591
Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World
813
Notes
999
Selected Bibliography
1097
Contributors
1137
Index
1139
Copyright

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About the author (2012)

Emily S. Rosenberg is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Jürgen Osterhammel is Professor of Modern History at the University of Konstanz. Charles S. Maier is Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History at Harvard University. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has written a number of award-winning books, including Recasting Bourgeois Europe, The Unmasterable Past, Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany, and Once Within Borders. Tony Ballantyne is Professor of History at the University of Otago. Antoinette Burton is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dirk Hoerder is Emeritus Professor of History at Arizona State University. Steven C. Topik is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Allen Wells is Roger Howell, Jr., Professor of History at Bowdoin College. Emily S. Rosenberg is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

Bibliographic information

TitleA World Connecting: 1870–1945
Volume 5 of A history of the world
Blackwell history of the world
EditorEmily S. Rosenberg
Editionillustrated
PublisherHarvard University Press, 2012
ISBN0674047214, 9780674047211
Length1161 pages
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Business & Economics / International / Economics & Trade
History / General
History / Modern / 19th Century
History / Modern / 20th Century / General
History / World
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / Imperialism
Political Science / International Relations / General
Science / Earth Sciences / Geography
Social Science / Emigration & Immigration
  
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