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[ THE GREAT DIVIDE HISTORY AND HUMAN NATURE IN THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW BY WATSON, PETER](AUTHOR)PAPERBACK
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The past, Peter Watson argues in this magnificent history of sixteen and a half millenia, is a whole series of foreign countries - and explaining the differences between them helps accounts for just about everything we take for granted in the here and now....Impossible, of course, to summarise this massive book in a small review. Sufficient, perhaps, to say that the year's first necessary read is here. (Christopher Bray WORD MAGAZINE)
In drawing together evidence from complex strands of archaeology, climatology, genetics and religious symbolism, Watson is compulsively speculative. (Peter Forbes THE INDEPENDENT)
Synthesizers like Watson play a valuable role in disseminating and linking up specialist research findings (Peter Coates TLS)
An ingenious work about the course of human history...The author seems to know everything about his subject and to hold an opinion on every issue, which he enthusiastically passes on...fascinating (KIRKUS REVIEWS)
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In drawing together evidence from complex strands of archaeology, climatology, genetics and religious symbolism, Watson is compulsively speculative. (Peter Forbes THE INDEPENDENT)
Synthesizers like Watson play a valuable role in disseminating and linking up specialist research findings (Peter Coates TLS)
An ingenious work about the course of human history...The author seems to know everything about his subject and to hold an opinion on every issue, which he enthusiastically passes on...fascinating (KIRKUS REVIEWS)
The rise and fall of the great civilisations and what this meant for mankind.
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- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0061672467
- ISBN 13 9780061672460
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