The Invention of Yesterday
A 50,000-year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
New York : PublicAffairs, 2019.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: vi, 436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The physical stage -- History begins with language -- Civilization begins with geography -- Trade weaves the networks -- The birth of belief systems -- Money, math, messaging, management, and might -- Megaempires take the stage -- The lands in between -- When worlds overlap -- World historical monads -- Out of the north -- Europe on the rise -- The nomads' last roar -- Europe and the long crusades -- The restoration narrative -- The progress narrative -- That Columbus moment -- Chain reactions -- After Columbus : the world -- The center does not hold -- Middle world enmeshed -- Ripple effects -- The invention explosion -- Our machines, ourselves -- Social constellations in the machine age -- Empires and nation-states -- A world at war -- Beyond the nation-state -- Digital era -- The environment -- The big picture.
ISBN:
9781610397964 (hardcover)
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HISTORY Ans | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-418) and index.