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The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century, (World Social Change) (2nd Edition) by Robert B. Marks Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-7425-5419-8 / 0742554198 ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-5419-1 / 9780742554191 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, |