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Regions and empires in the political history of the long nineteenth century / Cemil Aydin -- Introduction -- From the world of regions to a globalized imperial world -- The era of imperial self-strengthening -- Re-regionalization of the imperial world order -- Regional, ethnic, and geopolitical roots and consequences of an inter-imperial war -- Possibilities of plenty and the persistence of poverty: industrialization and international trade / R. Bin Wong -- Introduction -- The legacy of pre-industrial political economies -- Nineteenth-century industrialization: foundations of a European century in global history -- Nineteenth-century economic trajectories in the Americas -- The Atlantic world's late nineteenth-century industrial capitalism -- Nineteenth-century economies in the world of Western colonization -- East Asia: industry, trade and capitalism -- The global economy of late nineteenth-century industrial capitalism -- A cultural history of global transformation / Sebastian Conrad -- Introduction -- Regions, integration, and global awareness: a changing world order -- The global history of the enlightenment -- "Nothing is as it ought to be": the organization of time -- Religion in the global world -- Hierarchies and connections: aspects of a global social history / Jürgen Osterhammel -- Introduction -- Discovering the social -- The road to a world society -- Hierarchies -- Mobilities and networks.