Wilson Ben Heyday: The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age 9780465064250

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Автор: Wilson Ben
Название: Heyday: The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age
ISBN: 9780465064250
Издательство: Little Brown
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0465064256
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 528
Вес: 0.73 кг.
Дата издания: 26.04.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 163 x 41
Поставляется из: Европейский союз
Описание: Heyday brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global economy expanded fivefold, millions of families emigrated to the ends of the earth to carve out new lives, technology revolutionized how people communicated, and a steamships and railways cut across vast continents and oceans, shrinking the world and creating the first global age. It was a decade of breathtaking and remorseless transformation, fueled by the promise of exponential progress.
In Heyday, the acclaimed historian Ben Wilson recreates this time of explosive energy and dizzying change, a rollercoaster ride of booms and busts. The 1850s were witness to the laying of the first undersea cable in 1851, the rush for gold from California to Australia, and fleets of pirate vessels docked in Hong Kong harbor, eager to take advantage of booming trade. The West s insatiable hunger for land, natural resources, and new markets encouraged free trade, bold exploration, and colonization like never before.
Buoyed by supreme self-confidenceas well as new technologies of warnations clashed across the globe, and indigenous peoples fell victim to an assurgent West. Reckless economic expansion led to lasting ecological damage, and to the demise of local cultures which could not keep pace with the blistering pace of capitalism and free trade. In Heyday we encounter Muslim guerrilla fighters in the Caucasus Mountains and freelance empire-builders in the jungles of Nicaragua, British free trade zealots preying on China and samurai warriors resisting Western incursions in Japan.
A dazzling history of a tumultuous decade, Heyday traces the origins of our globalized world order.

Heyday: The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age, Wilson Ben