Efnisyfirlit

• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• Preface
• Introduction
• PART ONE: APPROACHES
  • I Memory and Self­Observation: The Perpetuation of the Nineteenth Century
    • 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 Self­Strengthening: 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

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