Osterhammel, Jürgen.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
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Part of the series America in the world;America in the world.
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- First published in Germany by C.H. Beck under the title Die Verwandlung der Welt, Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Memory and self-observation: the perpetuation of the nineteenth-century. Visibility and audibility Treasuries of memory and knowledge Observation, description, realism Numbers News Photography — Time: when was the nineteenth century? Chronology and the coherence of the age Calendar and periodization Breaks and transitions The Age of Revolution, Victorianism, Fin de Siecle Clocks and acceleration — Space: where was the nineteenth century? Space and time Metageography: naming spaces Mental maps: the relativity of spatial perspective Spaces of interaction: land and sea Ordering and governing space Territoriality, diaspora, borders — Mobilities. Magnitudes and tendencies Population disasters and the demographic transition The legacy of early modern migrations: Creoles and slaves Penal colony and exile Ethnic cleansing Internal migration and the changing slave trade Migration and capitalism Global motives — Living standards: risk and security in material life. The standard of living and the quality of life Life expectancy and Homo hygienicus Medical fears and prevention Mobile perils, old and new Natural disasters Famine Agricultural revolutions Poverty and wealth Globalized consumption — Cities: European models and worldwide creativity. The city as norm and exception Urbanization and urban systems Between deurbanization and hypergrowth Specialized cities, universal cities The golden age of port cities Colonial cities, treaty ports, imperial metropolises Internal spaces and undergrounds Symbolism, aesthetics, planning — Frontiers: subjugation of space and challenges to nomadic life. Invasions and frontier processes The North American West South America and South Africa Eurasia Settler colonialism The conquest of nature: invasions of the biosphere — Imperial systems and nation-states: the persistence of empires. Great-power politics and imperial expansion Paths to the nation-state What holds empires together? Empires: typo
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