Marks, Robert,  1949- <br/><br/>
The origins of the modern world :  a global and ecological narrative from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century / 
Robert B. Marks. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - Lanham :  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,  c2007. 
 - xiv, 221 p. :  ill., maps ;  23 cm. 
 - World social change .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The rise of the west? -- The material and trading worlds, circa 1400 -- Starting with China -- Empires, States, and the world, 1500-1775 -- The industrial revolution and its consequences 1750-1850 -- Tha gap -- The great departure -- Changes and continuities. 
<br/><br/> This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Drawing upon new scholarship on Asi, Africa, and the New world. Robert Marks constructs a story in wich those parts of the world play major roles... 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0742554198 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780742554191 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006046223 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History, Modern.<br/>Civilization, Modern--History.<br/>Economic history.<br/>Industrial revolution.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe--History--1492-
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D203  / .M37 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>940.2