Rise of the West A History of the Human Community

Name: Rise of the West A History of the Human Community
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ISBN: 9780226561417

ISBN-10: 0226561410

ISBN-13: 9780226561417

Edition: 1991 (Reprint)

Authors: William H. McNeill

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The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests 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 Twenty-five…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 860
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.81" tall
Weight: 2.904
Language: English



List of Illustrations


""The Rise of the West after Twenty-five Years""


Preface



The Era of Middle Eastern Dominance to 500 B.C.



In The Beginning



The Breakthrough to Civilization in Mesopotamia



The Diffusion of Civilization: First Phase



Introduction



The Civilizations of the Nile And Indus Valleys to 1700 B.C.



Ancient Egypt



The Indus Civilization



The Transplantation of Civilization to Rain-Watered Lands



Introductory



Asia Minor



Crete



The Impact of Civilization on the