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Praise for the third edition:

"This third edition of The Origins of the Modern World accentuates the book's strengths – especially by deepening its discussion of environmental change and of global inequality – while remaining compact, highly readable, and easy to connect with contemporary concerns.

Fair-minded but not bland, it has a potential to spark classroom discussion that conventional textbooks rarely have, while providing a helpful basic narrative around which to organize an appealing world history class."
– Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago

"The Origins of the Modern World combines two virtues that most textbooks lack: concision and an actual thesis.

Rather than assuming the voice of an omniscient narrator, Marks makes a compelling argument about the multiple causes and consequences – human and ecologi