The Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction and Connection, 1750-Present, Part 2, Shared Transformations?

The Cambridge World History

by John Robert McNeill (Editor), Kenneth Pomeranz (Editor)

Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of the Cambridge World History series, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles of vision on the increasingly interconnected history of humankind. The second book questions the extent to which the transformations of the modern world have been shared, focusing on social developments such as urbanization, migration, and changes in family and sexuality; cultural connections through religion, science, music, and sport; ligaments of globalization including rubber, drugs, and the automobile; and moments of particular importance from the Atlantic Revolutions to 1989.

Genres: History

569 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 16, 2015

Reviews

[Wing · Rating 5 out of 5]

This final book in the series chronicles the rampant commodification of myriad aspects of human life, the collapse of imperialism like a house of cards, and the many oft-forgotten miraculous technological advancements over the last quarter millennium. Individual chapters seamlessly intertwine with each other. The very last chapter is a cliffhanger – will globalisation bring in a new Golden Age or will it bring the world more inequity, misery, and conundrums? Five stars.