The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century

by Robert B. Marks

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538182777
• ISBN13: 9781538182772
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary