“This emphasis calls into question some of the most ingrained insights into the history of the modern world—for example, conceptualizing the nineteenth century, as is so often done, as an age of “bourgeois civilization,” in contrast with the twentieth century,… — Sven Beckert Copy Share Image
“This emphasis calls into question some of the most ingrained insights into the history of the modern world—for example, conceptualizing the nineteenth century, as… — Sven Beckert Copy Share Image
“Ironically, their shocking success also awakened the very forces that eventually would marginalize them within the empire they had created.” — Sven Beckert Copy Share Image