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Unlocking the World

Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930


  • Penguin - Allen Lane
  • by John Darwin
Steam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost of movement over land and water. The result was to throw open vast areas of the world to the rampaging expansion of Europeans and Americans on a scale previously unimaginable.

ISBN 9781846140860 | E | HB
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Publisher Penguin - Allen Lane
ISBN 9781846140860
Author(s) John Darwin
Publication date September 2020
Edition Hardback
Dimensions mm
Pages 448
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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Steam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost of movement over land and water. The result was to throw open vast areas of the world to the rampaging expansion of Europeans and Americans on a scale previously unimaginable.

Unlocking the World is the captivating history of the great port cities which emerged as the bridgeheads of this new steam-driven economy, reshaping not just the trade and industry of the regions around them but their culture and politics as well. They were the agents of what we now call 'globalization', but their impact and influence, and the reactions they provoked, were far from predictable. Nor were they immune to the great upheavals in world politics across the 'steam century'.