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The Rise of the West

লেখক / Author: William H. McNeill

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD One of the most important works of history from the twentieth century, The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, William H. McNeill challenges the then-prevalent view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. McNeill argues instead that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world history to support this claim. In a retrospective essay titled "The Rise of the West after…

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Pages: 866

Language: en

ISBN-13: 9780226561615

ISBN-10: 0226561615