A world connecting, 1870-1945

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Label

A world connecting, 1870-1945

Statement of responsibility

edited by Emily S. Rosenberg

Contributor

• Rosenberg, Emily S., 1944-

Subject

• Cultural relations -- History -- 19th century
• Cultural relations -- History -- 20th century
• Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
• Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
• History, Modern -- 19th century
• History, Modern -- 20th century
• Imperialism -- History -- 19th century
• Imperialism -- History -- 20th century
• International trade -- History -- 19th century
• International trade -- History -- 20th century
• Nation-state -- History -- 19th century
• Nation-state -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

• "Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. New technologies erased distance and accelerated the global exchange of people, products, and ideas on an unprecedented scale. A World Connecting focuses on an era when growing global interconnectedness inspired new ambitions but also stoked anxieties and rivalries that would erupt in two world wars--the most destructive conflicts in human history
• In five interpretive essays, distinguished historians Emily S. Rosenberg, Charles S. Maier, Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Dirk Hoerder, Steven C. Topik, and Allen Wells illuminate the tensions that emerged from intensifying interconnectedness and attempts to control and shape the effects of sweeping change. Each essay provides an overview of a particular theme: modern state-building; imperial encounters; migration; commodity chains; and transnational social and cultural networks. With the emergence of modern statehood and the fluctuating fate of empires came efforts to define and police territorial borders. As people, products, capital, technologies, and affiliations flowed across uneasily bounded spaces, the world both came together and fell apart in unexpected, often horrifying, and sometimes liberating ways."--Pub. desc

Member of

• History of the world (Belknap Press)

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

909.82/1

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

D359.7

LC item number

.W67 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

A history of the world