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The Origins of the Modern World

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

The Origins of the Modern World

By Robert B. Marks

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About the book

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 and upon the maturing field of environmental history, constructs a story in which those parts of the world play major roles, including their impacts on the environment. Robert B. Mar...Show more

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9781538127025

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published year

2019

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The Origins of the Modern World

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Hardcover

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