Birth of the Modern World, 1780 - 1914 - Bayly, C. A. (University of Cambridge, UK)

Presents a thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War which reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at this time than is commonly thought. This book considers various themes of the nineteenth-century world, including the rise of the modern state, industrialization and liberalism.