C.A. Bayly is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He is winner of the 2004 Wolfson History Prize for his distinguished contribution to the writing of history.

List Of Illustrations.
List Of Tables And Maps.
Series Editor's Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Part I: The End of The Old Regime.
Part II: The Modern World In Genesis.
Part III: State And Society In The Age of Imperialism.
Part IV: Change, Decay And Crisis.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at this time than is commonly thought.
* Explores previously neglected sets of connections in world history.
* Reveals that the world was far more 'globalised', even at the beginning of this period, than is commonly thought.
* Sketches the 'ripple effects' of world crises such as the European revolutions and the American Civil War.
* Shows how events in Asia, Africa and South America impacted on the world as a whole.
* Considers the great themes of the nineteenth-century world, including the rise of the modern state, industrialisation and liberalism.
* Challenges and complements the regional and national approaches which have traditionally dominated history teaching and writing.