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Title: The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative by Robert B. Marks ISBN: 0-7425-1754-3 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderfully explained!
Comment: I took two classes with Dr. Marks. All I have to say is that I think he is absolutely brilliant. I really learned a lot from this book and his classes. He enjoys his profession and clearly knows what he is talking about. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in history.
Rating: 4
Summary: Bridging the Gap
Comment: It often takes 5-10 years or longer for new scholarship to filter down into undergraduate survey textbooks, and this is especially true of the rapidly developing field of world history. Robert Marks' short book is an attempt to bridge this gap. It is a terse synthesis of recent historical revisionism surrounding 'the rise of the west'.
Those familiar with the recent scholarship in world history will note that Marks has shamelessly stolen concepts and arguments outlined by historians such as Fernand Braudel, William McNeill, Andre Gunder Frank, Ken Pomeranz, Charles Tilly, Bin Wong, Jim Blaut, Philip Curtin, Janet Abu-Lughod, Immanuel Wallerstein, Dennis Flynn and Arturo Giraldez - and a host of other historians whose works form the foundation of 'the new world history'. This is no doubt the strength of this short 160 page book since there is virtually no other book that summarizes and integrates this scholarship so succinctly at the moment. Indeed, Marks' book works better as an historiographical survey than as a historical narrative, as the subtitle would suggest.
While the book is ostensibly written for both students and the educated public, it seems clear that it will be most useful as a text for college courses and perhaps even graduate seminars in world history. It should also find its way onto the bookshelves of teachers of world history survey courses and high school AP World History.
A final caveat - be prepared for sticker shock. It is obscenely expensive; even counting the index and preface... an exorbitant price for a paperback book of this length.
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Title: The World and the West : The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire by Philip D. Curtin ISBN: 0521890543 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 25 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past by Patrick Manning ISBN: 1403961190 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 16 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Handbook of the World (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Peter Stalker ISBN: 0192800930 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz ISBN: 0140092331 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis ISBN: 1859843824 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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