Memory and self-observation: the perpetuation of the nineteenth-century
Time: when was the nineteenth century?
Space: where was the nineteenth century?
Living standards: risk and security in material life
Cities: European models and worldwide creativity
Frontiers: subjugation of space and challenges to nomadic life
Imperial systems and nation-states: the persistence of empires
International orders, wars, transnational movements: between two world wars
Revolutions: from Philadelphia via Nanjing to Saint Petersburg
The state: minimal government, performances, and the iron cage
Energy and industry: who unbound Prometheus, when, and where?
Labor: the physical basis of culture
Networks: extension, density, holes
Hierarchies: the vertical dimension of social space
Knowledge: growth, concentration, distribution
Civilization and exclusion
