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The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History
J.R.McNeil
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Description for The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History
paperback. Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the steam engine just once? Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: HBG; UDB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original contribution to this quickening discussion, two renowned historians, father and son, explore the webs that have drawn humans together in patterns of interaction and exchange, cooperation and competition, since earliest times. Whether small or large, loose or dense, these webs have provided the medium for the movement of ideas, goods, power, and money within and across cultures, societies, and nations. From the thin, localized webs that characterized agricultural communities ... Read more
World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David Landes, and others, are now of great moment as global frictions increase. In a spirited and original contribution to this quickening discussion, two renowned historians, father and son, explore the webs that have drawn humans together in patterns of interaction and exchange, cooperation and competition, since earliest times. Whether small or large, loose or dense, these webs have provided the medium for the movement of ideas, goods, power, and money within and across cultures, societies, and nations. From the thin, localized webs that characterized agricultural communities ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co.(New York & London)
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393925685
SKU
9780393925685
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About J.R.McNeil
J. R. McNeill is a professor of history at Georgetown University. He is the author of award-winning works in world and environmental history. These include The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History (co-authored with his father and world history pioneer, William H. McNeill), and Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, both published ... Read more
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