Title:
The origins of the modern world : a global and environmental narrative from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century / Robert B. Marks.
Author:
Marks, Robert, 1949- author.
Publication Information:
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Call Number:
D208 .M377 2015
Abstract:
"Now in a new edition, this clearly written and engrossing book presents a global and environmental narrative of the origins of the modern world since 1400. Robert Marks constructs a story in which Asia, Africa, and the New World play major roles and points to the resurgence of Asia and the vastly changed relationship of humans to the environment"--Provided by publisher.
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Edition:
Third edition.
ISBN:
9781442212398
9781442212404
9781442212411
Series:
World social change
World social change.
Physical Description:
xi, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:
List of figures and maps -- Preface to the third edition -- Introduction: The rise of the West? -- The material and trading worlds, circa 1400 -- Starting with China -- Empires, states, and the New World, 1500-1775 -- The industrial revolution and its consequences, 1750-1850 -- The gap -- The great departure -- Conclusion: Changes, continuities, and the shape of the future.
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