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The Origins of the Modern World - A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century (Paperback, Fourth Edition)
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The Origins of the Modern World - A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century (Paperback, Fourth Edition)
Series: World Social Change
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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 eighteenth century; a
conjuncture of human and natural forces that solidified a gap
between the industrialized and non-industrialized parts of the
world; and the mounting environmental crisis that defines the
modern world. Now in a new edition that brings the saga of the
modern world to the present in an environmental context, the book
considers how and why the United States emerged as a world power in
the twentieth century and became the sole superpower by the
twenty-first century, and why the changed relationship of humans to
the environmental likely will be the hallmark of the modern era-the
Anthopocene. Once again arguing that the US rise to global hegemon
was contingent, not inevitable, Marks also points to the resurgence
of Asia and the vastly changed relationship of humans to the
environment that may in the long run overshadow any political and
economic milestones of the past hundred years.
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