Brief History of the Human Race - Hardcover

Cook, Michael

 
9781862076877: Brief History of the Human Race
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1862076871 ISBN 13: 9781862076877
Verlag: Granta Books, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Sweeping across the whole of human history over the last 10,000 years, this work addresses some of the most fascinating questions about our past. Why did we first emerge as a species in Africa and why was the Ancient Near East the place where civilization took off? Why did civilizations develop, and also decline, at markedly different rates around the world? How did the great world religions arise and the worship of many gods give way to just one? And why did Britain, peripheral to world history for millennia, play such a dominant role in the last few centuries? Michael Cook explores the great forces that have shaped our past - natural disasters, human ingenuity, availability of resources - and along the way zooms in on some of the details of history, from the arcane burial customs of ancient Mexican kings and the erotic temple carvings of India, to the design of snuff boxes and the forging of antiques in ancient Rome. Cook shows that humankind has rarely been slow to take advantage of an opportunity when it has come within grasp - from the domestication of the horse to the exploration of space.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Cook, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, was educated at Cambridge and the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London. In 1986 he took up a position at Princeton. His publications include OUP's Very Short Introductions to the Koran and Mohammed. In 2002 he received the prestigious $1.5 million Distinguished Achievement Award from the Mellon Foundation for his significant contribution to humanities research.

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Verlag
Granta Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1862076871
ISBN 13 
9781862076877
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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