The origins of the modern world : a global and ecological narrative from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century
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The origins of the modern world : a global and ecological narrative from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century
（World social change）
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Includes index
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Description
This clearly written and engaging book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world. Unlike most studies, which assume that the "rise of the West" is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World, constructs a story in which those parts of the world play major roles. Robert B. Marks defines the modern world as one marked by industry, the nation state, interstate warfare, a large and growing gap between the wealthiest and poorest parts of the world, and an escape from "the biological old regime."
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Material and Trading Worlds, circa 1400 Chapter 2: Starting with China Chapter 3: Empires, States, and the New World, 1500-1775 Chapter 4: The Industrial Revolution and Its Consequences, 1750-1850 Chapter 5: The Gap Chapter 6: The Great Departure Chapter 7: Conclusion: Change and Continuities
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