A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System

by Patrick Manning

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108747094
• ISBN13: 9781108747097
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.9"