Maartje Abbenhuis is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of The Art of Staying Neutral (2006) and An Age of Neutrals (2014).Gordon Morrell is Associate Professor of History at Nipissing University, Canada. He is the author of Britain Confronts the Stalin Revolution: the Metro-Vickers Crisis and Anglo-Soviet Relations (1995).

[A] thoughtful analysis of the past while pointing toward valuable lessons for our own time … [An] up-to-date, accessible, clearly written survey that maps an interesting framework for thinking about the creation of the modern global world.

• List of illustrations and tablesAcknowledgementsA note on sourcesChapter 1: Contours of the first age of industrial globalization, 1815-1918Chapter 2: Of concerts and restraints: the international diplomatic system, 1815-1856Chapter 3: Industrializing empires and global capitalism after 1815Chapter 4: Building globalization’s infrastructure after 1856Chapter 5: Migration and the spread of formal and informal empiresChapter 6: Global commodities and the environmental costs of industrial capitalismChapter 7: A world of war after 1856Chapter 8: Where local meets global: ideas and politics on a global scaleChapter 9: Industrial globalization and the origins of the First World WarChapter 10: Industrial globalization at total war, 1914-1918Index

Maartje Abbenhuis is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of The Art of Staying Neutral (2006) and An Age of Neutrals (2014).Gordon Morrell is Associate Professor of History at Nipissing University, Canada. He is the author of Britain Confronts the Stalin Revolution: the Metro-Vickers Crisis and Anglo-Soviet Relations (1995).

[A] thoughtful analysis of the past while pointing toward valuable lessons for our own time … [An] up-to-date, accessible, clearly written survey that maps an interesting framework for thinking about the creation of the modern global world.

• List of illustrations and tablesAcknowledgementsA note on sourcesChapter 1: Contours of the first age of industrial globalization, 1815-1918Chapter 2: Of concerts and restraints: the international diplomatic system, 1815-1856Chapter 3: Industrializing empires and global capitalism after 1815Chapter 4: Building globalization’s infrastructure after 1856Chapter 5: Migration and the spread of formal and informal empiresChapter 6: Global commodities and the environmental costs of industrial capitalismChapter 7: A world of war after 1856Chapter 8: Where local meets global: ideas and politics on a global scaleChapter 9: Industrial globalization and the origins of the First World WarChapter 10: Industrial globalization at total war, 1914-1918Index

Maartje Abbenhuis is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of The Art of Staying Neutral (2006) and An Age of Neutrals (2014).Gordon Morrell is Associate Professor of History at Nipissing University, Canada. He is the author of Britain Confronts the Stalin Revolution: the Metro-Vickers Crisis and Anglo-Soviet Relations (1995).

[A] thoughtful analysis of the past while pointing toward valuable lessons for our own time … [An] up-to-date, accessible, clearly written survey that maps an interesting framework for thinking about the creation of the modern global world.

• List of illustrations and tablesAcknowledgementsA note on sourcesChapter 1: Contours of the first age of industrial globalization, 1815-1918Chapter 2: Of concerts and restraints: the international diplomatic system, 1815-1856Chapter 3: Industrializing empires and global capitalism after 1815Chapter 4: Building globalization’s infrastructure after 1856Chapter 5: Migration and the spread of formal and informal empiresChapter 6: Global commodities and the environmental costs of industrial capitalismChapter 7: A world of war after 1856Chapter 8: Where local meets global: ideas and politics on a global scaleChapter 9: Industrial globalization and the origins of the First World WarChapter 10: Industrial globalization at total war, 1914-1918Index