Jürgen Osterhammel. The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century

Year 2017, Issue: 42, 159 - 162, 21.08.2017

Kazım Baycar

https://doi.org/10.20519/divan.335628

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

19. Yüzyıl Dünya Tarihi, Küreselleşme Tarihi

References

• Jürgen Osterhammel. The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century, trans. Patrick Camiller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.