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Jürgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2017 Toynbee Prize, Toynbee Prize Foundation
Jürgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2012 Gerda Henkel Prize, of the Gerda Henkel Foundation
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Mark Leonard)
One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2014, chosen by Satiyajit Das
One of Marginal Revolution.com's (Tyler Cowen) Best Non-Fiction Books of 2014
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. J?rgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century," taking readers from New York to New Delhi, from the Latin American revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and promise of Europes transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet. Osterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railways. He explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much more.
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Jürgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2017 Toynbee Prize, Toynbee Prize Foundation
Jürgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2012 Gerda Henkel Prize, of the Gerda Henkel Foundation
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Mark Leonard)
One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2014, chosen by Satiyajit Das
One of Marginal Revolution.com's (Tyler Cowen) Best Non-Fiction Books of 2014
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. J?rgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century," taking readers from New York to New Delhi, from the Latin American revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and promise of Europes transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet. Osterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railways. He explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much more.
