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Introduction
by Jürgen Osterhammel 1
1. Regions and Empires in the Political History of the Long Nineteenth Century
by Cemil Aydin
Introduction 33
1. From the World of Regions to a Globalized Imperial World 43
2. The Era of Imperial Self-Strengthening 85
3. Re-regionalization of the Imperial World Order 131
4. Regional, Ethnic, and Geopolitical Roots and Consequences of an Inter-imperial War 197
2. Possibilities of Plenty and the Persistence of Poverty: Industrialization and International Trade
by R. Bin Wong
Introduction 251
1. The Legacy of Preindustrial Political Economies 256
2. Nineteenth-Century Industrialization: Foundations of a European Century in Global History 276
3. Nineteenth-Century Economic Trajectories in the Americas 297
4. The Atlantic World's Late Nineteenth-Century Industrial Capitalism 319
5. Nineteenth-Century Economies in the World of Western Colonization 333
6. East Asia: In...dustry, Trade, and Capitalism 355
7. The Global Economy of Late Nineteenth-Century Industrial Capitalism 374
3. A Cultural History of Global Transformation
by Sebastian Conrad
Introduction 413
1. Regions, Integration, and Global Awareness: A Changing World Order 428
2. The Global History of the Enlightenment 485
3. "Nothing Is the Way It Should Be": The Organization of Time 527
4. Religion in the Global World 582
4. Hierarchies and Connections: Aspects of a Global Social History
by Jürgen Osterhammel
Introduction 663
1. Discovering the Social 687
2. The Road to a World Society 729
3. Hierarchies 779
4. Mobilities and Networks 836
Notes 891
Selected Bibliography 1003
Contributors 1045
Index 1047