In Robert B. Marks’s introduction,” The Rise of the West?”, in the The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century, he begins by discusses four interrelated themes that our modern world revolves around. The first is how, when, and why parts of the world industrialized and how other parts of the world then used those processes. The second, how people have organized themselves politically. The third, the gap amongst the wealthy and the poor regions of the world and how that gap continually grows. Finally, the fourth he discusses the way people’s actions have changed and continue to change the environment. Marks also discusses Eurocentrism which is basically the fact that
