The Cambridge World History
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Volume 7. Production, Connection, and Destruction, 1750–Present Part 1. Structures, Spaces, and Boundary Making
J. R. McNeill (Editor), Kenneth Pomeranz (Editor)
overview
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of the Cambridge World History series, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles of vision on the increasingly interconnected history of humankind. The first book examines structures, spaces, and processes within which and through which the modern world was created, including the environment, energy, technology, population, disease, law, industrialization, imperialism, decolonization, nationalism, and socialism, along with key world regions.
contents
Table Of Contents:
List of figures
x
List of maps
xii
List of tables
xiii
List of contributors
xiv
Preface xv
1 Production, destruction, and connection, 1750--present: introduction
1 (50)
Kenneth Pomeranz
J. R. McNeill
PART I MATERIAL MATRICES
2 Energy, population, and environmental change since 1750: entering the Anthropocene
51 (32)
J. R. McNeill
3 The economic history of agriculture since 1800
83 (23)
Giovanni Federico
4 Global industrialization: a multipolar perspective
106 (30)
Kaoru Sugihara
5 The history of world technology, 1750--present
136 (28)
Paul Josephson
6 A new world of energy
164 (23)
Vaclav Smil
PART II POPULATION AND DISEASE
7 Demography and population
187 (25)
Massimo Livi-Bacci
8 Population politics since 1750
212 (25)
Alison Bashford
9 Disease and world history from 1750
237 (21)
Mark Harrison
10 The politics of smallpox eradication
258 (27)
Erez Manela
PART III POLITICS
11 The evolution of international law
285 (21)
Anthony Clark Arend
12 On nationalism
306 (25)
Aviel Roshwald
13 Assessing imperialism
331 (35)
Danielle Kinsey
14 Self-strengthening and other political responses to the expansion of European economic and political power
366 (29)
R. Bin Wong
15 Decolonization and its legacy
395 (25)
Prasenjit Duara
16 Genocide
420 (22)
Mark Levene
17 Communism and fascism
442 (25)
Robert Strayer
PART IV WORLD REGIONS
18 The Middle East in world history since 1750
467 (26)
John Obert Voll
19 East Asia in world history, 1750--21st century
493 (33)
Mark Selden
20 Latin America in world history
526 (30)
Julie A. Charlip
21 Africa in world history
556 (29)
Frederick Cooper
22 The United States in world history since the 1750s
585 (26)
Ian Tyrrell
23 The economic history of the Pacific
611 (21)
Lionel Frost
Index 632