"Globalization" has become a popular buzzword for explaining today's world. The expression achieved terminological stardom in the 1990s and was soon embraced by the general public and integrated into numerous languages. But is this much-discussed ph…
A concise and accessible history of decolonization in the twentieth century The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War…
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jurgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century,…
How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of Asia During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and o…
How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and op…
In dieser grandiosen Weltgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts erzählt Jürgen Osterhammel kundig, schwungvoll und facettenreich die Geschichte einer Welt im Umbruch. Aus einer Fülle an Material und einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Blickwink…
Osterhammel's book represents a new approach to the subject. The concise but sweeping study encompasses the process of colonization and decolonization from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Virtually all other studies to date have lo…
Sechzehn Autorinnen und Autoren aus Deutschland, der Schweiz, Großbritannien, Irland und den USA behandeln in systematisch aufeinander bezogenen Fallstudien den vielgestaltigen Komplex der ?Zivilisierungsmission?. Die exemplarischen Untersuchu…
Die Frage nach der Wirklichkeit der Symbole meint zweierlei: Einerseits die Bedeutung von Symbolen für die Entstehung sozialer Ordnung in Kommunikation und andererseits die Rahmung der deutenden Symbolisierungsprozesse durch soziale Ordnungsmus…
The first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the emergence of the middle class and bourgeois culture was by no means exclusive to Europe. The Global Bour…
