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The origins of the modern world : a global and environmental narrative from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century / Robert B. Marks.
LIBRA D208 .M377 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marks, Robert, 1949- author.
- Series:
- World social change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History, Modern.
- Europe--History--1492-.
- Europe.
- History.
- Civilization, Modern--History.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Economic history.
- Industrial revolution.
- Human ecology--History.
- Human ecology.
- Social change--History.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
- Summary:
- "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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442212398
- 144221239X
- 9781442212404
- 1442212403
- OCLC:
- 902726566
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