Download or read book Great Leaps Forward written by Cyrus Veeser and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Connections: Key Themes in World History series, this book presents students and general readers with a brief, accessible, but scholarly overview of the nationalist modernization that sought to transform less-developed societies in response to the rapid rise of the West after 1820.