The Invention of Prehistory
Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
"In this remarkable and enlivening study, Stefanos Geroulanos traces the development of our modern fascination with humanity's deep past, and lays out that fascination's deadly costs." --Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity--and how, for three centuries, ideas of prehistory have been used to justify devastating violence against others.
ISBN:
9781324091455
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HISTORY Ger | Main (Downtown) | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/22/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references and index.