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    This fleeting world : a short history of humanity / David Christian.

    By: Christian, David, 1946-Material type: TextTextSeries: This world of ours (Berkshire Publishing Group): Publisher: Great Barrington, Mass. : Berkshire Pub., c2008Description: xxviii, 113 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9781933782041; 1933782048; 0974309141 (alk. paper); 9780974309149 (alk. paper)Subject(s): World history | Civilization -- HistoryDDC classification: 909 LOC classification: D20 | .C498 2008Online resources: Table of contents
    Contents:
    Beginnings : the era of foragers -- Acceleration : the agrarian era -- Our world : the modern era.
    Summary: "A great historian can make clear the connections between the first Homo sapiens and today's version of the species, and a great storyteller can make those connections come alive. David Christian is both, and This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity, makes the journey--from the earliest foraging era to the agrarian era to our own modern era--a fascinating one. Ready to help your students give up their preconceptions that anything old is probably boring? Enter This Fleeting World."--From publisher description.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Beginnings : the era of foragers -- Acceleration : the agrarian era -- Our world : the modern era.

    "A great historian can make clear the connections between the first Homo sapiens and today's version of the species, and a great storyteller can make those connections come alive. David Christian is both, and This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity, makes the journey--from the earliest foraging era to the agrarian era to our own modern era--a fascinating one. Ready to help your students give up their preconceptions that anything old is probably boring? Enter This Fleeting World."--From publisher description.

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