Rise of the West : A History of the Human Community Condition:Like New Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005

Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005

independent Singapore

Guppy shows how the better trades are identified

in the year before his untimely death

Rise of the West : A History of the Human Community Condition:Like New Publication Date: 01 Aug 2005The 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