「19世紀史におけるブローデル」の異名もあるドイツ歴史学の泰斗による大著、待望の英訳。New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2014. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. This is the highly anticipated English edition of the spectacularly successful and critically acclaimed German book, which is also being translated into Chinese, Polish, Russian, and French.