Christopher Alan Bayly Ordre des livres (chronologique)

The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study explores global history since the First World War, offering a coherent, comparative overview of developments in politics, economics, and society at large.

Provides an account of the creation of an Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. This book tells the story of how India, Pakistan, Burma and Malaysia came into existence and how British interference in Vietnam and Indonesia fatally shaped those countries' futures.

Effectively it is the story of the birth of modern South and South- East Asia and the hopes and fears of the dozens of armies' marching through the jungle battlefields.

Cette réflexion sur l'histoire du monde mêle, à travers les différents continents, l'économie et les révolutions, la religion et les idéologies, l'urbanisme et les arts, et remet en cause les visions du monde consacrées et l'idée selon laquelle le modèle de civilisation né en Europe occidentale aurait dominé dès le XVIe siècle.

Published for the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (Winter 1990-1) "The Raj: India and the British, 1600-1947", this catalogue examines the relationship between British and Indian society over the whole period of the British presence in India.