The invention of yesterday : a 50,000-year history of human culture, conflict, and connection /
A sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major civilizations and cultural movements, Confuscianism, Islam, Judeo-Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Nomadism, and the dramatic, sometimes ruinous, sometimes transformative effects of their ever close...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | A sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major civilizations and cultural movements, Confuscianism, Islam, Judeo-Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Nomadism, and the dramatic, sometimes ruinous, sometimes transformative effects of their ever closer intertwinement that has brought us to where we are today. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 436 pages : maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-418) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781610397964 1610397967 |