Remaking the Modern World 1900 - 2015

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

C.A. Bayly (1945-2015) was Vere Harmsworth Professor of History in the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, from 1970 until 2015, and a leader in the field of global history. He won the Wolfson History Prize for his distinguished contribution to History in 2004 and received a knighthood for his services to the profession in 2007. Among his other significant works are The Birth of the Modern World: Global Connections and Comparisons, 1780-1914 (Wiley, 2004); Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (2005) and Forgotten Wars: Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia (2007), both co-authored with T.N. Harper; and Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism Empire (2012). He was a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, and the Academia Europaea.In 2016 he became the first posthumous recipient of the Toynbee Prize.