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Comparing and contrasting the development of humankind in the “Old World” and the “New” between 15,000 B.C. and 1500 A.D., a cultural historian ponders a vast array of questions central to the human story, providing uniquely revealing insight into what it means to be human. 20,000 first printing.
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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)
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0061672459
- ISBN 13 9780061672453
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages610
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