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Title Statement | The invention of yesterday: a 50,000-year history of human culture, conflict, and connection / Tamim Ansary. |
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Author | Ansary, Mir Tamim |
Publication | New York: PublicAffairs,2019. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | vi, 436 pages |
ISBN | 1610397967 9781610397964 |
Other Number | 3630988 |
General Notes | "BBS". |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary | "A sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major civilizations and cultural movements -- Confuscianism, Islam, Judeo-Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Nomadism -- and the dramatic, sometimes ruinous, sometimes transformative effects of their ever closer intertwinement that has brought us to where we are today"--Provided by publisher. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Civilization--History |
World history | |
Culture |