Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure of Human History - Softcover

Gellner, Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226287025 ISBN 13: 9780226287027

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, 1992

Synopsis

Philosophical anthropology on the grandest scale. . . . Gellner has produced a sharp challenge to his colleagues and a thrilling book for the non-specialist. Deductive history on this scale cannot be proved right or wrong, but this is Gellner writing, incisive, iconoclastic, witty and expert. His scenario compels our attention. -Adam Kuper, New Statesman "A thoughtful and lively meditation upon probably the greatest transformation in human history, upon the difficult problems it poses and the scant resources it has left us to solve them". -Charles Larmore, New Republic

About this title

About the Author:

Ernest Gellner was Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics from 1962 to 1984, when he became Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. Before his death in 1995, he was Research Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism at the Central European University in Prague. His many books include "Words and Things", "Thoughts and Change", "Saints of the Atlas", "Nations and Nationalism, Culture, Identity and Politics, Plough, Sword, and Book", and "Conditions of Liberty"

Synopsis:

Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0226287025
• ISBN 13: 9780226287027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288