The Rise of the West  -  William H. McNeill

A History of the Human Community

KORTE INHOUD

The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new o...
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1992 1x BEKROOND Uitgever: University Of Chicago Press 860 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0226561410 ISBN-13: 9780226561417