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The origins of the modern world a global and ecological narrative

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  • "全球的生态的述说"
  • "Quan qiu de sheng tai de shu shuo"
  • "Origins of the modern world"

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  • "This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. 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 andgrowing gap between the wealthiest and poorest parts of the world, and an escape from "the biological old regime." He explains its origins by emphasizing contingencies (such as the conquest of the New World); the broad comparability of the most advanced regions in China, India, and Europe; the reasons why England was able to escape from common ecological constraints facing all of those regions by the 18th century; and a conjuncture of human and natural forces that solidified a gap between the industrialized and non-industrialized parts of the world. Now in a new edition that brings the saga of the modern world to the present, the book considers how and why the United States emerged as a world power in the twentieth century and became the sole superpowerby the twenty-first century. Once again arguing that the rise of the United States to global hegemon was contingent, not inevitable, Marks also points to the resurgence of Asia and the vastly changed relationship of humans to the environment that may, inthe long run, overshadow any political and economic milestones of the past hundred years. <a href="http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/RL/books/marks2/">View an online study guide for this book</a> <a href="http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/RL/books/MarksInstructor/">View instructor guide for this book</a> (passcoded). E-mail <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> for a username and password to access the instructor site."

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  • "History"@en
  • "History"
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  • "Xian dai shi jie de qi yuan : quan qiu de sheng tai de shu shuo"
  • "Xian dai shi jie de qi yuan"
  • "The origins of the modern world fate and fortune in the rise of the West"
  • "The Origins of the modern world : a global and ecological narrative"
  • "The origins of the modern world a global and ecological narrative"@en
  • "The origins of the modern world a global and ecological narrative"
  • "The origins of the modern world : fate and fortune in the rise of the West"
  • "The origins of the modern world"
  • "现代世界的起源"
  • "The origins of the modern world : a global and ecological narrative"@en
  • "The origins of the modern world : a global and ecological narrative"
  • "现代世界的起源 : 全球的, 生态的述说"
  • "Xian dai shi jie de qi yuan : quan qiu de, sheng tai de shu shuo"
  • "現代世界的起源 : 全球的生態的述說"
  • "Origins of the modern world : a global and environmental narrative"@en
  • "Origins of the Modern World"
  • "Origins of the Modern World"@en
  • "Tasi ssǔnǔn kǔndae segyesa iyagi : segyehwa wa saengt'ae hakchǒk kwanchǒm esǒ = The origins of the modern world"

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