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Marks, Robert, 1949- author.
Subjects
History, Modern.
Civilization, Modern -- History.
Economic history.
Industrial revolution.
Human ecology -- History.
Social change -- History.
Europe -- History -- 1492-
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The origins of the m...
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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.
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Marks, Robert, 1949- author.
Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, c2015.
Subjects
History, Modern.
Civilization, Modern -- History.
Economic history.
Industrial revolution.
Human ecology -- History.
Social change -- History.
Europe -- History -- 1492-
ISBN:
9781442212398 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
144221239X (hardcover : alkaline paper)
9781442212404 (paperback : alkaline paper) :
1442212403 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Series:
World social change.
Description:
xi, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Edition:
Third edition.
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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"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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