| A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System Contributor(s): Manning, Patrick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108747094 ISBN-13: 9781108747097 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: February 2020 |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Dewey: 304.209 |
| LCCN: 2019033819 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 8.9" L (1.20 lbs) 374 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Maps, Price on Product |
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| Publisher Description: Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly global social discourse - and links processes of social evolution to the dynamics of biological and cultural evolution. Throughout each of these shifts, migration and social diversity have been central, and social institutions have existed in a delicate balance, serving not just their own members but undergoing regulation from society. Integrating approaches from world history, environmental studies, biological and cultural evolution, social anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary linguistics, Patrick Manning offers an unprecedented account of the evolution of humans and our complex social system and explores the crises facing that human system today. |
Contributor Bio(s): Manning, Patrick: - Patrick Manning is Andrew Mellon Professor of World History, Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, Founding Director of the World History Center and former President of the American Historical Association. He is a multidisciplinary scholar in African and world history and in historical datasets. |
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