TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marks,Robert
TI  - The origins of the modern world: a global and ecological narrative from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century 
SN  - 0742554198 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - D203 .M37 2007
U1  - 940.2 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - History
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Industrial revolution
KW  - Europe
KW  - 1492-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0704/2006046223.html
ER  -