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Informationen zum Autor C.A. Bayly (1945-2015) was Vere Harmsworth Professor of History in the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, from 1970 until 2015, and a leader in the field of global history. He won the Wolfson History Prize for his distinguished contribution to History in 2004 and received a knighthood for his services to the profession in 2007. Among his other significant works are The Birth of the Modern World: Global Connections and Comparisons, 1780-1914 (Wiley, 2004); Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (2005) and Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia (2007), both co-authored with T.N. Harper; and Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism Empire (2012). He was a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, and the Academia Europaea.In 2016 he became the first posthumous recipient of the Toynbee Prize. Klappentext 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.* Written by one of the leading historians of his generation, an early intellectual leader in the study of World History* Weaves a clear narrative history that explores the themes of politics, economics, social, cultural, and intellectual life throughout the long twentieth century* Identifies the themes of state, capital, and communication as key drivers of change on a global scale in the last century, and explores the impact of those ideas* Interrogates whether warfare was really the pre-eminent driving force of twentieth-century history, and what other ideas shaped the course of history in this period* Explores the causes behind the resurgence of local conflict, rather than global-scale conflict, in the years since the turn of the millennium* Delves into the narrative of inequality, a story that has shaped and been shaped by the events of the last hundred years Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Photo Credits viiSeries Editor's Preface ixChristopher Bayly and the Making of World History xiiiPreface xixIntroduction 11 The World Crisis, c.1900-1930: Europe and the "Middle East" 122 The World Crisis, c.1900-1930: Africa, Asia and Beyond 293 Authoritarianism and Dictatorship Worldwide, c.1900-1950 494 Democracies and Their Discontents, c.1900-1950 675 The Depression: State Intervention and Popular Resistance 846 The Second World War and its Consequences 967 Peripheral Conflicts and the End of Old Regimes, c.1945-1955 1188 America's Hegemony and Colonialism's Finale, mid-1950s to 1970s 1399 The "Tipping Point": World Politics and the Shock of the "Long 1980s" 16210 The Expansion of Human Knowledge: The Twentieth-Century Person and Society 17911 The Self and Human Society 19412 Arts, Literature and Entertainment: Crisis and Recovery 21513 Religion: Contestation and Revival 23114 A Century of Killing and a Century of Crime 24715 Internationalism and Transnationalism in Theory and Practice 26316 The Shadow of Empire in the Modern World 27017 The Pressure of People 28718 Between Two Centuries: Economic Liberalisation and Political Fragmentation, c.1991 to 2015 298Conclusion: Periods and Prophecy 323Notes 333Bibliography 363Index 379...
