TY - BOOK AU - Tignor,Robert L. AU - Adelman,Jeremy AU - Aron,Stephen AU - Kothin,Stephen AU - Marchand,Suzanne AU - Prakash,Gyan AU - Tsin,Michael TI - Worlds together, worlds apart: a history of the modern world from the Mongol Empire to the present SN - 9780393977462 U1 - 909 23 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Co. KW - World history KW - Civilization KW - History N1 - includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This narrative departs from the standard "rise of the West" storyline that has driven world historiography for a century. It paints a different modern world history, one in which the rise of the West was not predetermined and where global integration has manifested in fits and starts ER -