"A higher education textbook on World History from 1400 to the present"--

Forging the Modern World offers an accessible explanation of key transformations in global economic, political, and ideological relationships since the sixteent

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In this hugely ambitious history of Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which the country was transformed into the world’s first industr

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