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Remaking the Modern World 1900 - 2015
Global Connections and Comparisons
C. A. Bayly (Author)
9781405187169, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 14 September 2018
432 pages
23.9 x 16.8 x 2 cm, 0.635 kg
"Overall, the great value of this last of Christopher Bayly's books is nonetheless beyond question: Remaking the Modern World is truly thought provoking and speaks to may different discussions, be it on the approach of global history...or the problems and possibilities of presentist history writing." Global Histories, Vol. 5, No. 1 (May 2019) “As with Birth, the value of Remaking lies in the ways in which it re-reads many well-known topics. By placing them in a global perspective, it often ascribes to them very new meanings.” -- Australian Journal of Politics and History: Volume 66, Number 1, 2020 “The book is excellent for students, historians whose expertise lies outside of modern history, and scholars of other disciplines interested in modern history, especially those not in the social sciences or humanities.” -- HNet: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online, August, 2021
The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study explores global history since the First World War, offering a coherent, comparative overview of developments in politics, economics, and society at large. Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.
List of Figures and Photo Credits vii Series Editor’s Preface ix Christopher Bayly and the Making of World History xiii Preface xix Introduction 1 1 The World Crisis, c.1900–1930: Europe and the “Middle East” 12 2 The World Crisis, c.1900–1930: Africa, Asia and Beyond 29 3 Authoritarianism and Dictatorship Worldwide, c.1900–1950 49 4 Democracies and Their Discontents, c.1900–1950 67 5 The Depression: State Intervention and Popular Resistance 84 6 The Second World War and its Consequences 96 7 Peripheral Conflicts and the End of Old Regimes, c.1945–1955 118 8 America’s Hegemony and Colonialism’s Finale, mid-1950s to 1970s 139 9 The “Tipping Point”: World Politics and the Shock of the “Long 1980s” 162 10 The Expansion of Human Knowledge: The Twentieth-Century Person and Society 179 11 The Self and Human Society 194 12 Arts, Literature and Entertainment: Crisis and Recovery 215 13 Religion: Contestation and Revival 231 14 A Century of Killing and a Century of Crime 247 15 Internationalism and Transnationalism in Theory and Practice 263 16 The Shadow of Empire in the Modern World 270 17 The Pressure of People 287 18 Between Two Centuries: Economic Liberalisation and Political Fragmentation, c.1991 to 2015 298 Conclusion: Periods and Prophecy 323 Notes 333 Bibliography 363 Index 379
Subject Areas: History [HB]
