TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marks, Robert B. 
TI  - The origins of the modern world: a global and environmental narrative from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century
SN  - 9781538107454
U1  - 940.2 M342O-3 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Lanham, Maryland
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield, 
KW  - History
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - Europe
KW  -  History
KW  - 1492
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -