Includes bibliographical references (pages 1003-1043) and index.

Regions and empires in the political history of the long nineteenth century / Cemil Aydin -- Introduction -- From the world of regions to a globalized imperial world -- The era of imperial self-strengthening -- Re-regionalization of the imperial world order -- Regional, ethnic, and geopolitical roots and consequences of an inter-imperial war -- Possibilities of plenty and the persistence of poverty: industrialization and international trade / R. Bin Wong -- Introduction -- The legacy of pre-industrial political economies -- Nineteenth-century industrialization: foundations of a European century in global history -- Nineteenth-century economic trajectories in the Americas -- The Atlantic world's late nineteenth-century industrial capitalism -- Nineteenth-century economies in the world of Western colonization -- East Asia: industry, trade and capitalism -- The global economy of late nineteenth-century industrial capitalism -- A cultural history of global transformation / Sebastian Conrad -- Introduction -- Regions, integration, and global awareness: a changing world order -- The global history of the enlightenment -- "Nothing is as it ought to be": the organization of time -- Religion in the global world -- Hierarchies and connections: aspects of a global social history / Jürgen Osterhammel -- Introduction -- Discovering the social -- The road to a world society -- Hierarchies -- Mobilities and networks.

The long century between 1750 and 1880 was a transformative period in global history. During this time, a world of connected, but essentially still separated large regions, gave way to a globally integrated world. Ever since, different parts of the world were linked not through trade and war alone. Cultural developments, political reform and social change were increasingly entangled across continents and cultures. Emerging Modernity, the fourth volume of the 6-volume series A History of the World, charts this transformative period. How did the modern world economy emerge? Why did industrialization begin in England and not in China, and were there origins of capitalist development outside of the West? What were the roles of slaves and of nomads in this integrating world? Was there a bourgeoisie outside of Euro-America? To what extent did the large empires keep the rise of nation-states in check? Was the emergence of the "Muslim world" an effect of globalization? Such issues are at the center of the four large, thematically organized chapters of the present volume.-- Provided by publisher