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100			_aMichael Cook _919705
245			_aBrief History of the Human Race
260			_aNew York _bW W Norton & Company _c2003
300			_axxiv,385 p. _bHB _c21x14 cm.
365			_b26.95 _c$ _d26.95
520			_aA global account of how and why human history unfolded as it did from the rise of agriculture to the fall of the Twin Towers. Why has human history been crowded into the last few thousand years? Why has it happened at all? Could it have happened in a radically different way? What should we make of the disproportionate role of the West in shaping the world we currently live in? This witty, intelligent hopscotch through human history addresses these questions and more. Michael Cook sifts the human career on earth for the most telling nuggets and then uses them to elucidate the whole. From the calendars of Mesoamerica and the temple courtesans of medieval India to the intricacies of marriage among an aboriginal Australian tribe, Cook explains the sometimes eccentric variety in human cultural expression. He guides us from the prehistoric origins of human history across the globe through the increasing unification of the world, first by Muslims and then by European Christians in the modern period, illuminating the contingencies that have governed broad historical change.
650			_aNeolithic Revolution _919706
650			_aPaleollthic Background _919707
650			_aIslamic Civilization _919708
650			_aEuropean Expansion _919709
650			_aModern World _919710
700			_aCOOK (Michael) _919711
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