Cambridge University Press eBooks· 2015· Book chapter
The Global Transformation
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The 'long nineteenth century' (1776-1914) initiated a 'global transformation' of political, economic, military, and cultural revolutions that fundamentally reshaped societies and laid the groundwork for modern international relations.
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- The 'long nineteenth century' (1776-1914) was a period of significant political, economic, military, and cultural revolutions.
- These revolutions constituted a 'global transformation' that redefined domestic and international societies.
- The transformation established the material and ideational basis for modern international relations.
- It created a power gap between societies that adopted modernity and those that did not, influencing international relations for two centuries.
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Abstract
The 'long nineteenth century' (1776–1914) was a period of political, economic, military and cultural revolutions that re-forged both domestic and international societies. Neither existing international histories nor international relations texts sufficiently register the scale and impact of this 'global transformation', yet it is the consequences of these multiple revolutions that provide the material and ideational foundations of modern international relations. Global modernity reconstituted the mode of power that underpinned international order and opened a power gap between those who harnessed the revolutions of modernity and those who were denied access to them. This gap dominated international relations for two centuries and is only now being closed. By taking the global transformation as the starting point for international relations, this book repositions the roots of the discipline and establishes a new way of both understanding and teaching the relationship between world history and international relations.
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