McNeill, WIlliam H. creator author. text New York Oxford University Press c1979 Third edition. monographic eng

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xvii, 558 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 21.6 cm. "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 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. Adult William H. McNeill. Includes index. Lauron, Rodello General Education General Education : History Text in English World history 9789715691635 [paperback] University of Cebu-Banilad 260617 20260617105514.0