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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)
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #562202 in Books
- Published on: 2006-07-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
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Synopsis
For Marks (history, Whittier College), the "modern world" is the world of industrial capitalism, a system of nation-states and interstate wars, and a growing gap between the richest and the poorest. In this work he presents a narrative of the rise of the modern world that seeks to avoid Eurocentrism by, for example, showing how the British Industri
Customer Reviews
Too pretentious, too little content
Don't buy it. Old fashoned bombastic language and too little content. Instead of reading these sweeping marxist ill formulated thoughts I recommend Jared Davies books, which I found a magnitude more readable and interesting.
Could have been good, but "As we will see later..."
The topic about the silver trade on European hulls between South America and Asia was interesting. But the cost of reading the book is simply to high. There is too much of "As we will see later..." and attempts to explain why the author wants to explain something later in the text, that it's just too much. The first time is was a hard read, just so boring even if the topic should have been so interesting. The second time I ditched the book after 40 pages of "As we will see later...". I didn't got around to the part about the silver trade. Interesting topic, interesting take. But the language is 40 years past it's time. (Compared it to both English and non-English history books, especially some big non-English multi volume works from the late seventies.)
