EAN: 9781846140877

UNLOCKING THE WORLD - JOHN DARWIN KARTONIERT (TB)

From the acclaimed historian of global empire  the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped
our cities and our seas  and forged a new world order Steam power transformed our world 
initiating the complex  resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live
with today. It revolutionized work and production  but also the ease and cost of movement over
land and water. The result was to throw open vast areas of the world to the rampaging expansion
of Europeans and Americans on a scale previously unimaginable. Unlocking the World is the
captivating history of the great port cities which emerged as the bridgeheads of this new
steam-driven economy  reshaping not just the trade and industry of the regions around them but
their culture and politics as well. They were the agents of what we now call 'globalization' 
but their impact and influence  and the reactions they provoked  were far from predictable. Nor
were they immune to the great upheavals in world politics across the 'steam century'. This book
is global history at its very best. Packed with fascinating case histories (from New Orleans to
Montreal  Bombay to Singapore  Calcutta to Shanghai)  individual stories and original ideas 
Darwin's book allows us  for better or worse  to see the modern age taking shape. 'A fine 
important and original book ... wonderful' Paul Kennedy  Literary Review

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