by Michael Cook · Tapa dura · ISBN 9781862076877
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«A Brief History of the Human Race» is a historical essay by Michael Cook, published by Granta Books in hardback.
A journey through human history from the Palaeolithic and the Neolithic revolution to the first civilisations, with a survey of different continents. Each chapter combines an overview with thematic sections such as writing, Athenian democracy, the bronzes of the Shang dynasty, or the Muslim calendar.
The English-language edition of 2004 has 385 pages; the work had originally appeared in 2003.
For readers interested in world history, anthropology, and the development of early civilisations.
Michael Allan Cook FBA is a British historian and scholar of Islamic history. Cook is the general editor of The New Cambridge History of Islam.
