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020			_a9789715691635 [paperback]
040			_aUniversity of Cebu-Banilad _cUniversity of Cebu-Banilad
100			_aMcNeill, WIlliam H., _eauthor.
245			_aA world history / _cWilliam H. McNeill.
250			_aThird edition.
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _cc1979.
300			_axvii, 558 pages : _billustrations (black & white) ; _c21.6 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
504			_aIncludes index.
505			_aContents: 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.
520			_a"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
521			_aAdult
541			_xLauron, Rodello _yGeneral Education _zGeneral Education : History
546			_aText in English
650			_aWorld history.
942			_2ddc _cBK
998			_cGian [new] _d06/17/2026
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