Heyday: The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age

by Ben Wilson

Book Overview

Heyday brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global economy expanded fivefold, millions of families emigrated to the ends of the earth to carve out new lives, technology revolutionized how people communicated, and a steamships and railways cut across vast continents and oceans, shrinking the world and creating the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465064256
• ISBN13: 9780465064250
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.1"