A HISTORY OF THE WORLD
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A World Connecting

1870–1945

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$48.00 • £38.95 • €43.00

ISBN 9780674047211

Publication Date: 10/30/2012

Short

1168 pages

6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches

62 halftones, 16 maps, 16 tables

Belknap Press

A History of the World

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  • Introduction [Emily S. Rosenberg]
  • I. Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood [Charles S. Maier]
    • Introduction
    • 1. The World Is Weary of the Past
    • 2. Reconstruction on a World Scale
    • 3. The Human Zoo
    • 4. States of Exception
  • II. Empires and the Reach of the Global [Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton]
    • Introduction
    • 1. Reterritorializing Empires
    • 2. Remaking the World
    • 3. Global Empires, Transnational Connections
  • III. Migrations and Belongings [Dirk Hoerder]
    • Introduction
    • 1. A Longue-Durée Perspective
    • 2. The Global and the Local
    • 3. Migrations, Free and Bound
    • 4. Migrations during War and Depression
    • 5. The Aftermath of War and Decolonization
  • IV. Commodity Chains in a Global Economy [Steven C. Topik and Allen Wells]
    • Introduction
    • 1. Transformations
    • 2. The Sinews of Trade
    • 3. Commodity Chains
  • V. Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World [Emily S. Rosenberg]
    • Introduction
    • 1. Currents of Internationalism
    • 2. Social Networking and Entangled Attachments
    • 3. Exhibitionary Nodes
    • 4. Circuits of Expertise
    • 5. Spectacular Flows
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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