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The story of man

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S. O SIMPLE and so basic is the aim of this book that its first sentence must be a warning to the reader not to look behind the words for hidden meanings or academic profundities. This aim is to describe the main events of human history from the time that man appeared on the face of the earth until the present moment, when he has the power to destroy it. For the best part of a cen tury historians have been struggling to break the shackles of con- ventional history. Some have followed the framework of economics through time; others those of art, social structure, science, and other disciplines and combinations of disciplines. I shall approach history with the tools of an anthropologist: human biology, ar- chæology, and the study of living cultures, particularly those of primitive" men. Because anthropologists have had some success in finding out how cultures work I hope to find some meaning in history, which is nothing but a record of all the cultures of the world since man first became a reasoning animal and taught his children to chip flint.rn"

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909 Coo s

Publisher

New York : Alfred A Knopf., 1954

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438 pages

Language

English

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909

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HISTORY

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