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A world history / William H. McNeill.

By: McNeill, WIlliam H [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, c1979Edition: Third editionDescription: xvii, 558 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 21.6 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789715691635 [paperback]Subject(s): World history

Contents:

Contents: Part I Emergence and definition of the major old world civilizations to 500 B.C. — Part II Equilibrium among the civilizations 500 B.C.-A.D. 1500 — Part III The dominance of the west — Part IV The onset of global cosmopolitanism — Bibliographical essay, Part IV — Index.

Summary: "Human societies, distinguished from one another by differing styles of life, are very numerous, and have existed from pre- and proto-human times throughout mankind's history. Civilizations are unusually massive societies, weaving the lives of millions of persons into a loose yet co-periods of time that are very long when measured by the span of an individual human life. Being both massive and long-lived, civilizations must perforce also be few. Indeed, from the time when human societies first attained civilized complexity and size, no more than four different major civilized traditions ever co-existed in the Old world; and in the New, where Amerindian development remained always weak and retarded, no more than three distinct civilizations ever emerged." —Preface

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Includes index.

"Human societies, distinguished from one another by differing styles of life, are very numerous, and have existed from pre- and proto-human times throughout mankind's history. Civilizations are unusually massive societies, weaving the lives of millions of persons into a loose yet co-periods of time that are very long when measured by the span of an individual human life. Being both massive and long-lived, civilizations must perforce also be few. Indeed, from the time when human societies first attained civilized complexity and size, no more than four different major civilized traditions ever co-existed in the Old world; and in the New, where Amerindian development remained always weak and retarded, no more than three distinct civilizations ever emerged." —Preface