The Transformation of the World by Camiller, Patrick -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface Introduction Part One: Approaches

1 Visibility and Audibility 2 Treasuries of Memory and Knowledge 3 Observation, Description, Realism 4 Numbers 5 News 6 Photography

II: Time: When Was the Nineteenth Century?

1 Chronology and the Coherence of the Age 2 Calendar and Periodization 3 Breaks and Transitions 4 The Age of Revolution, Victorianism, Fin de Siècle 5 Clocks and Acceleration

III: Space: Where Was the Nineteenth Century?

1 Space and Time 2 Metageography: Naming Spaces 3 Mental Maps: The Relativity of Spatial Perspective 4 Spaces of Interaction: Land and Sea 5 Ordering and Governing Space 6 Territoriality, Diaspora, Borders

Part Two: Panoramas

IV: Mobilities

1 Magnitudes and Tendencies 2 Population Disasters and the Demographic Transition 3 The Legacy of Early Modern Migrations: Creoles and Slaves 4 Penal Colony and Exile 5 Ethnic Cleansing 6 Internal Migration and the Changing Slave Trade 7 Migration and Capitalism 8 Global Motives

V: Living Standards: Risk and Security in Material Life

1 The Standard of Living and the Quality of Life 2 Life Expectancy and “Homo hygienicus” 3 Medical Fears and Prevention 4 Mobile Perils, Old and New 5 Natural Disasters 6 Famine 7 Agricultural Revolutions 8 Poverty and Wealth 9 Globalized Consumption

VI: Cities: European Models and Worldwide Creativity

1 The City as Norm and Exception 2 Urbanization and Urban Systems 3 Between Deurbanization and Hypergrowth 4 Specialized Cities, Universal Cities 5 The Golden Age of Port Cities 6 Colonial Cities, Treaty Ports, Imperial Metropolises 7 Internal Spaces and Undergrounds 8 Symbolism, Aesthetics, Planning

VII: Frontiers: Subjugation of Space and Challenges to Nomadic Life

1 Invasions and Frontier Processes 2 The North American West 3 South America and South Africa 4 Eurasia 5 Settler Colonialism 6 The Conquest of Nature: Invasions of the Biosphere

VIII: Imperial Systems and Nation-States: The Persistence of Empires

1 Great-Power Politics and Imperial Expansion 2 Paths to the Nation-State 3 What Holds Empires Together? 4 Empires: Typology and Comparisons 5 Central and Marginal Cases 6 Pax Britannica 7 Living in Empires

IX: International Orders, Wars, Transnational Movements: Between Two World Wars

1 The Thorny Path to a Global System of States 2 Spaces of Power and Hegemony 3 Peaceful Europe, Wartorn Asia and Africa 4 Diplomacy as Political Instrument and Intercultural Art 5 Internationalisms and the Emergence of Universal Norms

X: Revolutions: From Philadelphia via Nanjing to Saint Petersburg

1 Revolutions— from Below, from Above, from Unexpected Directions 2 The Revolutionary Atlantic 3 The Great Turbulence in Midcentury 4 Eurasian Revolutions, Fin de Siècle

XI: The State: Minimal Government, Performances, and the Iron Cage

1 Order and Communication: The State and the Political 2 Reinventions of Monarchy 3 Democracy 4 Bureaucracies 5 Mobilization and Discipline 6 Self-Strengthening: The Politics of Peripheral Defensive 7 State and Nationalism

Part Three: Themes

XII: Energy and Industry: Who Unbound Prometheus, When, and Where?

1 Industrialization 2 Energy Regimes: The Century of Coal 3 Paths of Economic Development and Nondevelopment 4 Capitalism

XIII: Labor: The Physical Basis of Culture

1 The Weight of Rural Labor 2 Factory, Construction Site, Office 3 Toward Emancipation: Slaves, Serfs, Peasants 4 The Asymmetry of Wage Labor

XIV: Networks: Extension, Density, Holes

1 Communications 2 Trade 3 Money and Finance

XV: Hierarchies: The Vertical Dimension of Social Space

1 Is a Global Social History Possible? 2 Aristocracies in (Moderate) Decline 3 Bourgeois and Quasi-bourgeois

XVI: Knowledge: Growth, Concentration, Distribution

1 World Languages 2 Literacy and Schooling 3 The University as a Cultural Export from Europe 4 Mobility and Translation 5 Humanities and the Study of the Other

XVII: Civilization and Exclusion

1 The “Civilized World” and Its “Mission” 2 Slave Emancipation and White Supremacy 3 Antiforeignism and “Race War” 4 Anti-Semitism

XVIII: Religion

1 Concepts of Religion and the Religious 2 Secularization 3 Religion and Empire 4 Reform and Renewal

Conclusion: The Nineteenth Century in History

1 Self-Diagnostics 2 Modernity 3 Again: The Beginning or End of a Century 4 Five Characteristics of the Century

Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index