Jürgen Osterhammel. The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
Abstract
Osterhammel’s masterpiece, The Transformation
of the World, can
be summarized with a simple phrase as “the portrait of an epoch” (p. xvii). It
sketches out the concepts, agenda, concerns and mentality of the nineteenth
century, the longest century that all humanity has ever seen. The book has been
influential both in academic and popular circles which gave birth to a number
of reviews. What makes this review different from the previous ones would be
that it handles the book with special emphasis on the Ottoman-Turkish history
parts and passages.
Keywords
References
- Jürgen Osterhammel. The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century, trans. Patrick Camiller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
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Journal Section
Book Review
Authors
Kazım Baycar
This is me
Publication Date
August 21, 2017
Submission Date
August 22, 2017
Acceptance Date
August 1, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2017 Volume: 22 Number: 42