Robert B. Marks

Origins of the Modern World

A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Origins of the Modern World sets out an analytical framework that is accessible to students while providing a global approach to world history. Remarkable in its presentation of global narratives in such a brief text. Marks's book has a strong emphasis on economic and environmental factors as well as Western coercion and exploitation.

Produktdetails

• World Social Change
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• 5 ed
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781538182772
• ISBN-10: 1538182777
• Artikelnr.: 67515255

Autorenporträt

Robert B. Marks was Richard and Billie Deihl Professor of History at Whittier College and the author of China: Its Environment and History (R&L 2012) and Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial China (CUP 1998). He is the recipient of Whittier College's Harry W. Nerhood Teaching Excellence Award.

Inhaltsangabe

ContentsList of Figures and Maps
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Rise of the West?
The Rise of the West
"The Gap" and Its Explanations
Eurocentrism
Stories and Historical Narratives
The Elements of an Environmentally Grounded Non-Eurocentric Narrative
Chapter One: The Material and Trading Worlds, circa 1400
The Biological Old Regime
The Weight of Numbers
Climate Change
Population Density and Civilization
The Agricultural Revolution
Towns and Cities in 1400
Nomadic Pastoralists
Wildlife
Population Growth and Land
Famine
The Nitrogen Cycle and World History
Epidemic Disease
The World and Its Trading System circa 1400
The Black Death: A Mid-Fourteenth-Century Conjuncture
Conclusion: The Biological Old Regime
Chapter Two: Starting with China
China
The Voyages of Zheng He, 1405-33
India and the Indian Ocean
Dar al-Islam, "The Abode of Islam"
Africa57
Slavery
Europe and the Gunpowder Epic
Armed Trading on the Mediterranean
Portuguese Explorations of the Atlantic
Armed Trading in the Indian Ocean
Conclusion
Chapter Three: Empires, States, and the New World, 1500-1775
Empire Builders and Conquerors
Russia and China
Mughal, Safavid, and Ottoman Expansion
The Dynamics of Empire
The Americas
The Conquest of the Americas and the Spanish Empire
The Columbian Exchange
The Great Dying
Labor Supply Problems
Silver
The Spanish Empire and Its Collapse
China's Demand for Silver
The New World Economy
Sugar, Slavery, and Ecology
Human Migration and the Early Modern World
The Global Crisis of the Seventeenth Century and the European State System
State Building
Mercantilism
The Seven Years' War, 1756-63
Chapter Four: The Industrial Revolution and Its Consequences, 1750-1850
Cotton Textiles
India
The New World as a Peculiar Periphery
New Sources of Energy and Power
China
Markets
Exhausting the Earth
England, Redux
Coal, Iron, and Steam
Recap: Without Colonies, Coal, or State Support
Science and Technology
Tea, Silver, Opium, Iron, and Steam
Tea
Silver
Opium
Iron and Steam
Conclusion: Into the Anthropocene
Chapter Five: The Gap
Opium and Global Capitalism
India
Industrialization Elsewhere
France
The United States
Germany
Russia
Japan
New Dynamics in the Industrial World
The Environmental Consequences of Industrialization
The Social Consequences of Industrialization
Nations and Nationalism
The Scrambles for Africa and China
Africa
China
El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Social Darwinism and Self-Congratulatory Eurocentrism
Conclusion
Chapter Six: The Great Departure
Introduction to the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Part I: Nitrogen, Wars, and the First Deglobalization, 1900-1945
World War I and the Beginning of the Thirty-Year Crisis, 1914-45
Revolutions
Colonial Independence Movements
Normalcy?
The Great Depression of the 1930s
World War II
Part II: The Post-World War II and Cold War Worlds, 1945-91
Decolonization
Asian Revolutions
Development and Underdevelopment
Consumerism versus Productionism
Consumerism
Third World Developmentalism
Migration, Refugees, and States
Global Inequality
Inequality within Rich Countries
Part III: Globalization and Its Opponents, 1991-Present
The End of the Cold War
The End of History?
A Clash of Civilizations?
Global Free Trade
Energy, Oil, and War
Deterritorialization
Does History Repeat Itself?
Part IV: The Great Departure: Into the Anthropocene
Conclusion
Conclusion: Changes, Continuities, and the Shape of the Future
The Story Summarized
Globalization
Into the Future
Notes
Index
About the Author