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Translation of: Die Verwandlung der Welt.
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The description for this book, Decolonization: A Short History, will be forthcoming.
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A concise and accessible history of decolonization in the twentieth century The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerge...d as actors in global politics. Imperial regimes collapsed, some mo
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How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of Asia During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and ...colorful book, Jurgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European E
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How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of Asia During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic book..., Jurgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment'
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Max Weber (1894-1920) is generally recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern sociology. This collection pays homage to his influence, not just within sociology, but also political theory, science and religion.
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Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. In five interpretive essays, A World Connecting goes beyond nations, empires, and world wars to capture the era's defining feature: the profound and disruptive shift ...toward an ever more rapidly integrating world.
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This book assesses Max Weber, a leading modern thinker and social scientist, comparing his work and contribution to such diverse fields as epistemology, political sociology, sociology of religion and economic history with that of his contemporaries.
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The first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the emergence of the middle class and bourgeois culture was by no means exclusive to Europe. The Global Bourgeoisie explores the rise of the... middle classes around the world during the age of empire. Bringin
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Argues that globalization is not so new. This book traces the emergence of globalization over the past 7 or 8 centuries and argues that the period from 1750 to 1880 represented an important phase in globalization phenomenon. It demonstrates how globalization in the mid-20th centu...ry opened up the prospect of global destruction though nuclear war.
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