Revolutions --History --18th century -- History, Modern --19th century -- Globalization

Any historical study is constructed from a partial view of the work of many scholars. A book on this scale is deply indebted to a whole generation of historian and to many others from earlier times. This book is a thematic history of the world from 1780, the beginning of the revolutionary age, to 1914, the onset of the first world war, which ripped apart the contemporary system of states and empires. The book, therefore, trace the rise of globaluniformities in the state, religion, poltical ideologies, and economic life as they developed through institutions such as churches, royal courts, or systems of justice.