Tracing the evolution of civilization from ancient times to the present day, the author of A Peace to End All Peace examines how the changing complexities of society have shaped our concept of history and our vision of the future. 20,000 first printing.
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David Fromkin is Professor of International Relations, History, and Law at Boston University. He is the author of <b>In the Time of the Americans</b>, a History Book Club selection, and <b>A Peace to End All Peace</b>, a national best-seller, which was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize and was singled out by the <i>New York Times Book Review</i> as an "Editors' Choice," one of the thirteen "Best Books of the Year". He lives in New York City.
et here?<br><br>David Fromkin provides arresting and dramatic answers to the questions we ask ourselves as we approach the new millennium. He maps and illuminates the paths by which humanity came to its current state, giving coherence and meaning to the main turning points along the way by relating them to a vision of things to come. His unconventional approach to narrating universal history is to focus on the relevant past and to single out the eight critical evolutions that brought the world from the Big Bang to the eve of the twenty-first century.<br><br>He describes how human beings survived by adapting to a world they had not yet begun to make their own, and how they created and developed organized society, religion, and warfare. He emphasizes the transformative forces of art and the written word, and the explosive effects of scientific discoveries. He traces the course of commerce, exploration, the growth of law, and the quest for freedom, and details how their convergence led to the
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