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The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study explores global history since the First World War, offering a coherent, comparative overview of developments in politics, economics, and society at large. * Written by one of the leading historians of his generation, an early intellectual leader in the study of World History * Weaves a clear narrative history that explores the themes of politics, economics, social, cultural, and intellectual life throughout the long twentieth century * Identifies the themes of state, capital, and communication as key drivers of change on a global scale in the last century, and explores the impact of those ideas * Interrogates whether warfare was really the pre-eminent driving force of twentieth-century history, and what other ideas shaped the course of history in this period * Explores the causes behind the resurgence of local conflict, rather than global-scale conflict, in the years since the turn of the millennium * Delves into the narrative of inequality, a story that has shaped and been shaped by the events of the last hundred years "Overall, the great value of this last of Christopher Bayly's books is nonetheless beyond question: Remaking the Modern World is truly thought provoking and speaks to may different discussions, be it on the approach of global history...or the problems and possibilities of presentist history writing." Global Histories, Vol. 5, No. 1 (May 2019)


"As with Birth, the value of Remaking lies in the ways in which it re-reads many well-known topics. By placing them in a global perspective, it often ascribes to them very new meanings." -- Australian Journal of Politics and History: Volume 66, Number 1, 2020

Remaking the Modern World 1900-2015 - Global Connections and Comparisons

List of Figures and Photo Credits vii





Series Editor's Preface ix





Christopher Bayly and the Making of World History xiii





Preface xix





Introduction 1





1 The World Crisis, c.1900-1930: Europe and the "Middle East" 12





2 The World Crisis, c.1900-1930: Africa, Asia and Beyond 29





3 Authoritarianism and Dictatorship Worldwide, c.1900-1950 49





4 Democracies and Their Discontents, c.1900-1950 67





5 The Depression: State Intervention and Popular Resistance 84





6 The Second World War and its Consequences 96





7 Peripheral Con?icts and the End of Old Regimes, c.1945-1955 118





8 America's Hegemony and Colonialism's Finale, mid-1950s to 1970s 139





9 The "Tipping Point": World Politics and the Shock of the "Long 1980s" 162





10 The Expansion of Human Knowledge: The Twentieth-Century Person and Society 179





11 The Self and Human Society 194





12 Arts, Literature and Entertainment: Crisis and Recovery 215





13 Religion: Contestation and Revival 231





14 A Century of Killing and a Century of Crime 247





15 Internationalism and Transnationalism in Theory and Practice 263





16 The Shadow of Empire in the Modern World 270





17 The Pressure of People 287





18 Between Two Centuries: Economic Liberalisation and Political Fragmentation, c.1991 to 2015 298





Conclusion: Periods and Prophecy 323





Notes 333





Bibliography 363





Index 379