Way of the World From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century

Name: Way of the World From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9780679766698

ISBN-10: 0679766693

ISBN-13: 9780679766698

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Authors: David Fromkin

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"Ambitious.... The truth is that Fromkin's outline is persuasively thought out and presented."--The Washington Post Book World As the human race approaches the 21st century, questions of our past trouble us as much as those that concern our future. How did we get here? Where--and how--did Homo sapiens originate? How did we, precariously bipedal, come to dominate the animal kingdom, direct the flow of the Euphrates, fly a rocket to the moon? David Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace and finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critic Circle Award, provides an arrestingly cogent answer in The Way of the World. With insight and sound scholarship, he reveals how…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/25/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.17" wide x 7.94" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Historian David Fromkin is a professor at Boston University and the author of several acclaimed books of nonfiction. He lives in New York City.