The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century 5th Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 1538182785
• ISBN-13:  9781538182789
• Author: 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 their impacts on the environment. Robert B. Marks defines the modern world as one marked by industry, the nation state, interstate warfare, a large and growing gap between the wealthiest and poorest parts of the world, increasing inequality within the wealthiest industrialized countries, and an escape from the environmental constraints of 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 end of the eighteenth century; a conjuncture of human and natural forces that solidified a gap between the industrialized and non-industrialized parts of the world; the mounting environmental crisis that defines the modern world; and the ways in which the forces of globalization stress the economic and political underpinnings of the modern world.

Table contents:

Part I: Nitrogen, Wars, and the First Deglobalization, 1900–1945

Part II: Reglobalization in the Post–World War II and Cold War Worlds, 1945–91

Part III: Globalization and Its Opponents, 1991–Present

Part IV: The Great Departure: Into the Anthropocene

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