The transformation of the world |
Subtitle:
a global history of the nineteenth century
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Book Category:
Philosophy > History & Surveys > General
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Author:
Osterhammel, J?rgen
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9780691147451
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Price:
USD 39.95
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Publication Year:
2014
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Publisher Info
Timothy Wilkins,
Princeton University Press,41 William Street,
Princeton ,
New Jersey - 08540,USA
Web: press.princeton.edu Inquiry
Book Description
Writing meaningfully about global history is ambitious at best, but this work on the 19th century succeeds. Refreshingly, Osterhammel (Univ. of Konstanz, Germany) does not argue for any grand theory of global change or that any region's periodization should supersede others; the world's cultures were too distinct and insufficiently linked for such a theory to be viable.
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