The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History

ISBN-13: 9780393925685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 368 str.

William H. (University of Chicago) McNeill

Opis

Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the steam engine just once?