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"Overall, the great value of this last of Christopher Bayly'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...or the problems and possibilities of presentist history writing." Global Histories, Vol. 5, No. 1 (May 2019)
“As with Birth, the value of Remaking lies in the ways in which it re-reads many well-known topics. By placing them in a global perspective, it often ascribes to them very new meanings.” -- Australian Journal of Politics and History: Volume 66, Number 1, 2020
“The book is excellent for students, historians whose expertise lies outside of modern history, and scholars of other disciplines interested in modern history, especially those not in the social sciences or humanities.” -- HNet: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online, August, 2021
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Photo Credits vii
Series Editor’s Preface ix
Christopher Bayly and the Making of World History xiii
Preface xix
Introduction 1
1 The World Crisis, c.1900–1930: Europe and the “Middle East” 12
2 The World Crisis, c.1900–1930: Africa, Asia and Beyond 29
3 Authoritarianism and Dictatorship Worldwide, c.1900–1950 49
4 Democracies and Their Discontents, c.1900–1950 67
5 The Depression: State Intervention and Popular Resistance 84
6 The Second World War and its Consequences 96
7 Peripheral Conflicts and the End of Old Regimes, c.1945–1955 118
8 America’s Hegemony and Colonialism’s Finale, mid-1950s to 1970s 139
9 The “Tipping Point”: World Politics and the Shock of the “Long 1980s” 162
10 The Expansion of Human Knowledge: The Twentieth-Century Person and Society 179
11 The Self and Human Society 194
12 Arts, Literature and Entertainment: Crisis and Recovery 215
13 Religion: Contestation and Revival 231
14 A Century of Killing and a Century of Crime 247
15 Internationalism and Transnationalism in Theory and Practice 263
16 The Shadow of Empire in the Modern World 270
17 The Pressure of People 287
18 Between Two Centuries: Economic Liberalisation and Political Fragmentation, c.1991 to 2015 298
Conclusion: Periods and Prophecy 323
Notes 333
Bibliography 363
Index 379
