Summary
Jürgen Osterhammel: The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the 19th Century
In this magnificent Global History of the 19th Century Jurgen Osterhammel expertly, dynamically and multi-layered tells the story of a world at a turning point. His deeply grounded portrait of that fascinating era was created from a wealth of material and a multitude of different perspectives. Osterhammel questions structures and patterns, marks turning points and continuities, similarities and differences. His culturally comprehensive, thematically broad presentations and analyzes intertwine into a bold historical panorama that not only goes far beyond traditional Eurocentric approaches, but also offers much more than standard historiographical paradigms, such as industrialization or colonialism. At the same time, he thematizes the development of different societies based on knowledge, man's relationship to nature, his dealings with disease and differences, as well as the specifics of urbanization, different forms of civil arrangements, the legality of migration and life in permanent settlements, processes of adaptation and resistance, secularization and religiosity. At the same time, Osterhammel constantly draws parallels with today's world. His book Transformation of the World has been translated into several languages.
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