{"title":"Robert B. Marks","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert B. Marks explores the intersection of history, science, and nature, offering deeply researched accounts that reveal the complex forces shaping our world. His works delve into geological time and environmental change, inviting readers to consider the vast scales that influence both landscapes and civilizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on education and reference, Marks presents clear, insightful narratives that illuminate scientific concepts and historical origins. Expect thoughtful examinations that broaden understanding of the natural world and humanity’s place within it.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-origins-of-the-modern-world-by-robert-b-marks-9781538182772","title":"The Origins of the Modern World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the \"rise of the West\" is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World, and upon the maturing field of environmental history, constructs a story in which those parts of the world play major roles, including their impacts on the environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRobert B. Marks defines the modern world as one marked by industry, the nation state, interstate warfare, a large and growing gap between the wealthiest and poorest parts of the world, increasing inequality within the wealthiest industrialised countries, and an escape from the environmental constraints of the \"biological old regime.\" He explains its origins by emphasizing contingencies (such as the conquest of the New World); the broad comparability of the most advanced regions in China, India, and Europe; the reasons why England was able to escape from common ecological constraints facing all of those regions by the end of the eighteenth century; a conjuncture of human and natural forces that solidified a gap between the industrialised and non-industrialised parts of the world; the mounting environmental crisis that defines the modern world; and the ways in which the forces of globalisation stress the economic and political underpinnings of the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow in a new edition that brings the saga of the modern world to the present in an environmental context, \u003cem\u003eThe Origins of the Modern World\u003c\/em\u003e considers how and why the United States emerged as a world power in the twentieth century and became the sole superpower by the twenty-first century. It also examines why the changed relationship of humans to the environment likely will be the hallmark of the modern era—the Anthropocene. Once again arguing that the US rise to global hegemon was contingent, not inevitable, Marks also points to the resurgence of Asia and the vastly changed relationship of humans to the environment that may in the long run overshadow any political and economic milestones of the past hundred years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471818506476,"sku":"9781538182772","price":74.26,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/d9f1a4efc401696364ebd839da5224aa.jpg?v=1776127461"},{"product_id":"deep-time-in-the-mono-lake-basin-by-robert-b-marks-9780520428577","title":"Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTen millennia in the Mono Lake Basin, showing how this complex ecosystem came to be what it is today.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNestled at the base of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California sits a stunning landscape overlooking a saline lake with picturesque tufa towers and flocks of phalarope birds. This is the Mono Lake Basin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this sweeping history, Robert B. Marks examines the forces that have shaped the Mono Lake Basin's rich ecosystem. The story starts with the region's Indigenous peoples. It then traces the mid-nineteenth-century arrival of Euro-American settlers and the dispossession of the Kootzaduka'a people of their land. A struggle for control over water led to hydroelectric development and the sale of land and water rights to Los Angeles, diverting nearly all fresh water out of the basin and precipitating an ecological crisis by the 1970s. The ecological restoration movement that has, for now, successfully preserved the Mono Lake Basin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Marks shows, the basin reveals a larger story of how human actions and natural forces shape the environment. A dramatic and ultimately hopeful environmental history, \u003cem\u003eDeep Time in the Mono Lake Basin\u003c\/em\u003e explores a beloved region to illuminate questions of water, power, and our relationship with the natural world that echo far beyond the American West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650538651884,"sku":"9780520428577","price":69.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520428577-deep-time-in-the-mono-lake-basin.jpg?v=1779326129"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/robert-b-marks.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}