Unlocking the World : Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930
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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 orderSteam 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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