List of Maps Acknowledgments Changes to the Third Edition About the Authors INTRODUCTION. Forging the Modern World What''s in a Title? Sources and Methods Practicing History with This Book Agency and Contingency CHAPTER 1. A World Connected 1347-1520 Political and Economic Order in Afro-Eurasia The Great Disruptions of the Fourteenth Century Historians Explore The Second Global Pandemic New Structures and New Relationships Africa Conclusion Exploring the Sources A Few Good Books CHAPTER 2. The New Global Interface 1486-1637 Encounter and Cataclysm in the Western Hemisphere Historians Explore The Conquest Era From Conquest to Colonialism A World Connected Conclusion Exploring the Sources A Few Good Books CHAPTER 3. The Paradoxes of Early Modern Empire 1501-1661 The Words and Deeds of Empire Building Tangled Loyalties and the European Wars of Religion Collapse and Restoration of Empire in China Historians Explore The Ming-Qing Transition Conclusion Exploring the Sources A Few Good Books CHAPTER 4. Production and Consumption in the First Global Economy 1571-1721 Agricultural Production Global Trade Networks Historians Explore Early Modern Textiles and Material Culture States and Economic Activity Conclusion Exploring the Sources A Few Good Books CHAPTER 5. Global War and Imperial Reform 1655-1766 Consolidating the Center: Modernizing Monarchies The Question of Control in the Atlantic Seaborne Empires Historians Explore Slavery, Resistance, and Survival World War Zero Conclusion Exploring the Sources A Few Good Books CHAPTER 6. A New Order for the Ages 1762-1839 The Reform Impulse Revolution and Reaction Historians Explore Haiti and the Age of Revolution New Challenges of Political Organization Conclusion Exploring the Sources A Few Good Books CHAPTER 7.
The Engines of Industrialization 1787-1868 What Is Revolutionary about Industrialization? Historians Explore Industrialization in Comparative Perspective Life during the Industrial Revolution The Transformation of Global Power Relations Conclusion Exploring the Sources A Few Good Books CHAPTER 8. Modernity Organized 1840-1893 Reform versus Revolution Nation and Citizen in the Western Hemisphere Global Hierarchies Defined and Defied Historians Explore Archaeology, Museums, and the Hierarchy of Nations Conclusion Exploring the Sources A Few Good Books CHAPTER 9. Globalization and Its Discontents 1869-1915 The New Imperialism and Neocolonialism Historians Explore Solidarity and Resistance to Imperialism in Africa Sovereignty and Conflict in East Asia The Price of Progress in the Western Hemisphere Migration and Work, Empire and Nation Conclusion Exploring the Sources A Few Good Books CHAPTER 10. Total War and Mass Society 1911-1933 Total War: World War I and the Russian Revolution First Challenges of the Post-War World Political Paths through the 1920s Historians Explore Literature as Sources The Global Economy from the 1920s to the Great Depression Conclusion Exploring the Sources A Few Good Books CHAPTER 11. The Ongoing Crisis of Global Order 1930-1957 The Political and Economic Experiments of the 1930s The International Order Collapses Historians Explore Mass Media, Propaganda, and the Modern State Empire in the Shadow of Global War Conclusion Exploring the Sources A Few Good Books CHAPTER 12. Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and Liberation Movements 1954-1991 Economic Development: Three Worlds? Historians Explore Identities and Protest Movements The Late Cold War Era and Shifting Power Dynamics Conclusion Exploring the Sources A Few Good Books CHAPTER 13. The Many Worlds of the Twenty-First Century 1987-2021 The End of History and Its Quick Return Economic Integration Historians Explore Viral Images, Deep Fakes, and Historical Reasoning The Realities of the Biological New Regime Conclusion Exploring the Sources A Few Good Books Epilogue Credits Index.