The Capitalist Era

The Makingand Unmakingof the Global Mind
A sweeping history of global interdependence from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first century with essential lessons for today.

A sweeping history of global interdependence from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first centurywith essential lessons for today

In The Capitalist Era, leading global historian Jeremy Adelman puts the worlds current unwinding in much-needed historical perspective. Combining political, economic, intellectual, and environmental history, the book tells the epic story of the forces that, since the late eighteenth century, have transformed the world into a single but fractured survival unit that is integrated by exchange and flow, yet divided by suspicion and fear. It is a story of hopes for universal peace, panic over planetary destruction, and debates, policies, and media that have shaped how people view one another across distances and border