This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more ‘globalised’ at this time than is commonly thought.Explores previously neglected sets of connections in world historyReveals that the world was far more ‘globalised’, even at the beginning of this period, than is commonly thoughtSketches the ‘ripple effects’ of world crises such as the European revolutions and the American Civil WarShows how events in Asia, Africa and South America impacted on the world as a wholeConsiders the great themes of the nineteenth-century world, including the rise of the modern state, industrialisation and liberalismChallenges and complements the regional and national approaches which have traditionally dominated history teaching and writing