The origins of the modern world a global and environmental narrative from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century
"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 vas...
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Lanham
Rowman & Littlefield
2015
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| Edition: | Third edition |
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Table of 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