World Social Change Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century, (Hardcover)

Now in a new edition, this clearly written and engrossing book presents a global and environmental narrative of the origins of the modern world since 1400. Robert Marks constructs a story in which Asia, Africa, and the New World play major roles and points to the resurgence of Asia and the vastly changed relationship of humans to the environment.