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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for A Brief History of Now -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Setting the Frame -- Now -- Economic Globalization -- World Hegemony -- Democracy -- Socioeconomic Inequality Within and Between Societies -- Technological Innovations -- Climate Change -- Now and then: Trajectories in Global History -- 2 We Were All Brits (1851-1914) -- Hegemony, What Is It? -- Industrial Revolution -- Which Pyramid? -- The Industrial "Gradualution" -- Democratic Revolution -- The Synergic Revolutions -- Non-Identical Twins -- An Experiment with Synergy -- Another Set of Twins: Free Tradeand Comparative Advantage -- Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour: At Home in Western Europe -- Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour: Playing "Catch-22" with Gunpowder Empires -- Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour and the American Divergence -- Two Sets of Twins on a World Tour: The Scramble for Africa -- First Globalization and Britannization -- Spoiling the Hegemonic Party: The Exceptional Outliers -- All Aboard! Welcome to the Global Train -- 3 Until the "Big Brexit" (1914-1945) -- A Globally Convoluted Interplay -- Contested Hegemony, Head-On -- A Bigger Brother -- A Strange Couple -- A Global Communist Revolution -- Surprising Success -- By Reaction Against -- Directly Guided -- By Imitation -- Failure, the Mother of Improvisation -- The Carousel of Revolution -- The Other Carousel: Reaction -- A World Safe for Democracy -- It's the Economy, Stupid! -- A Game Changer -- Second Round -- So Long to the Global Train! -- 4 When We Became Americans (1946-1973) -- The World Series -- Hegemony and Empire: Great Britain -- Hegemony and Empire: The United States -- Two Centuries at Odds-And Counting -- A Fourfold Big Stick -- A Huge Carrot Named the U.S. Economy -- An Alluring Dream Named the American Dream.