The birth of the modern world 1780-1914

"Covering the period 1780 to 1914, The Birth of the Modern World shows how events in Asia, Africa and South America - from the decline of the eighteenth-century Islamic empires to the anti-European Boxer Rebellion of 1900 in China, had a direct impact on European and American history. And, conversely, how the "ripple effects" of crises such as the European revolutions and the American Civil War worked their way through to the rest of the world. None of the great themes of the nineteenth-century world - the rise of the modern state, industrialisation, liberalism, imperialism, and the progress of world religions - is untouched by the novel perspectives of this compelling new history."--Provided by the publisher.