Remaking the modern world 1900-2015 : global connections and comparisons / C.A. Bayly.

Author/creator Bayly, C. A. author.
Format Book
PublicationHoboken, NJ, USA : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018.
Copyright Date©2018
Descriptionxx, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesThe Blackwell history of the world
Blackwell history of the world. ^A392200
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.
General 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-378) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan), author. Remaking the modern world 1900-2015 Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2018 9781119268734
Other titleBirth of the modern world, 1780-1914.
LCCN 2018008893
ISBN9781405187152 hardcover
ISBN1405187158 hardcover
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