On Deep History and the Brain

Name: On Deep History and the Brain
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ISBN: 9780520258129

ISBN-10: 0520258126

ISBN-13: 9780520258129

Edition: 2008

Authors: Daniel Lord Smail

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When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. Daniel Lord Smail argues that in the wake of the Decade of the Brain and the best-selling historical work of scientists like Jared Diamond, the time has come for fundamentally new ways of thinking about our past. He shows how recent work in evolution and paleohistory makes it possible to join the deep past with the recent past and abandon, once and for all, the idea of prehistory. Making an enormous…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Toward Reunion in History



The Grip of Sacred History



Resistance



Between Darwin and Lamarck



The New Neurohistory



Civilization and Psychotropy


Epilogue: Looking Ahead


Notes


Bibliography of Works Cited


Index