{"id":16512,"date":"2019-09-27T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T12:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=16512"},"modified":"2019-09-27T12:56:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T12:56:51","slug":"c-a-bayly-remaking-the-modern-world-1900-2015-global-connections-and-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=16512","title":{"rendered":"C. A. Bayly, \u201cRemaking the Modern World 1900-2015: Global Connections and Comparisons\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Godine 2018. posthumno je objavljena knjiga \u201cRemaking the Modern World 1900-2015: Global Connections and Comparisons\u201d povjesni\u010dara C. A. Baylyja (1945-2015), autora knjige \u201cThe Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons\u201d (2004), va\u017ene ne samo za one koje zanima globalna povijest nego i kako pisati o \u0161irim povezanostima, ispreplitanjima i uspore\u0111ivanjima bez obzira na temu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Remaking the Modern World 1900 &#8211; 2015: Global Connections and Comparisons<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>C.A. Bayly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>October 2018<\/p>\n<p>Wiley-Blackwell<\/p>\n<p>424 Pages<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Baylys ground-breaking <em>The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914<\/em>, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study explores global history since the First World War, offering a coherent, comparative overview of developments in politics, economics, and society at large.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Written by one of the leading historians of his generation, an early intellectual leader in the study of World History<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Weaves a clear narrative history that explores the themes of politics, economics, social, cultural, and intellectual life throughout the long twentieth century<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Identifies the themes of state, capital, and communication as key drivers of change on a global scale in the last century, and explores the impact of those ideas<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Interrogates whether warfare was really the pre-eminent driving force of twentieth-century history, and what other ideas shaped the course of history in this period<\/p>\n<p>-Explores the causes behind the resurgence of local conflict, rather than global-scale conflict, in the years since the turn of the millennium<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Delves into the narrative of inequality, a story that has shaped and been shaped by the events of the last hundred years<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>C.A. Bayly<\/strong> (1945-2015) was Vere Harmsworth Professor of History in the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St. Catharine&#8217;s College, Cambridge, from 1970 until 2015, and a leader in the field of global history. He won the Wolfson History Prize for his distinguished contribution to History in 2004 and received a knighthood for his services to the profession in 2007. Among his other significant works are <em>The Birth of the Modern World: Global Connections and Comparisons, 1780-1914<\/em> (Wiley, 2004); <em>Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945<\/em> (2005) and <em>Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia<\/em> (2007), both co-authored with T.N. Harper; and <em>Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism<\/em> Empire (2012). He was a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, and the Academia Europaea.In 2016 he became the first posthumous recipient of the Toynbee Prize. C.A. Bayly (1945-2015) was Vere Harmsworth Professor of History in the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St. Catharine&#8217;s College, Cambridge, from 1970 until 2015, and a leader in the field of global history. He won the Wolfson History Prize for his distinguished contribution to History in 2004 and received a knighthood for his services to the profession in 2007. Among his other significant works are <em>The Birth of the Modern World: Global Connections and Comparisons, 1780-1914<\/em> (Wiley, 2004); <em>Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945<\/em> (2005) and <em>Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia<\/em> (2007), both co-authored with T.N. Harper; and <em>Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism Empire<\/em> (2012). He was a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, and the Academia Europaea.In 2016 he became the first posthumous recipient of the Toynbee Prize.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>List of Figures and Photo Credits vii<\/p>\n<p>Series Editor\u2019s Preface ix<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Bayly and the Making of World History xiii<\/p>\n<p>Preface xix<\/p>\n<p>Introduction 1<\/p>\n<p>1 The World Crisis, c.1900\u20131930: Europe and the \u201cMiddle East\u201d 12<\/p>\n<p>2 The World Crisis, c.1900\u20131930: Africa, Asia and Beyond 29<\/p>\n<p>3 Authoritarianism and Dictatorship Worldwide, c.1900\u20131950 49<\/p>\n<p>4 Democracies and Their Discontents, c.1900\u20131950 67<\/p>\n<p>5 The Depression: State Intervention and Popular Resistance 84<\/p>\n<p>6 The Second World War and its Consequences 96<\/p>\n<p>7 Peripheral Con\ufb02icts and the End of Old Regimes, c.1945\u20131955 118<\/p>\n<p>8 America\u2019s Hegemony and Colonialism\u2019s Finale, mid-1950s to 1970s 139<\/p>\n<p>9 The \u201cTipping Point\u201d: World Politics and the Shock of the \u201cLong 1980s\u201d 162<\/p>\n<p>10 The Expansion of Human Knowledge: The Twentieth-Century Person and Society 179<\/p>\n<p>11 The Self and Human Society 194<\/p>\n<p>12 Arts, Literature and Entertainment: Crisis and Recovery 215<\/p>\n<p>13 Religion: Contestation and Revival 231<\/p>\n<p>14 A Century of Killing and a Century of Crime 247<\/p>\n<p>15 Internationalism and Transnationalism in Theory and Practice 263<\/p>\n<p>16 The Shadow of Empire in the Modern World 270<\/p>\n<p>17 The Pressure of People 287<\/p>\n<p>18 Between Two Centuries: Economic Liberalisation and Political Fragmentation, c.1991 to 2015 298<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion: Periods and Prophecy 323<\/p>\n<p>Notes 333<\/p>\n<p>Bibliography 363<\/p>\n<p>Index 379<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overall, the great value of this last of Christopher Bayly&#8217;s books is nonetheless beyond question: Remaking the Modern World is truly thought provoking and speaks to may different discussions, be it on the approach of global history&#8230;or the problems and possibilities of presentist history writing.&#8221; Global Histories, Vol. 5, No. 1 (May 2019)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read an Excerpt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-us\/Remaking+the+Modern+World+1900+2015%3A+Global+Connections+and+Comparisons-p-9781405187169\">https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-us\/Remaking+the+Modern+World+1900+2015%3A+Global+Connections+and+Comparisons-p-9781405187169<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Bayly.jpg?fit=300%2C458&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52531,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52531","url_meta":{"origin":16512,"position":0},"title":"Jonathan G. 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