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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A nice overview, with welcome updates on details that have been uncovered since I left school, and areas that I simply know less about. ( ) Despite the fact that Cook does an exellent job of taking us through all of the myriad cultures of the world, and asking what happened there and why (much of the time the answer is 'geography'), I did not like this book. I did like his summary of one Arab ethnographer's reasoning behind differences in peoples: the dumb-blonde theory (northern lattitudes produce "blonde and stupid" people while southern lattitude light levels produce "black and foolish" peoples, explaining why peoples from the middle range lattitudes have moderate skin tones and the sciences. I particularly disliked his use of Britain as a model country: why not one of the Scandinavian island nations, which by most measures does even better for lawfullness, stable government and economic well-being? Turns out that Cook, like Armstrong, ( please read also: [b:Islam: A Short History|27306|Islam A Short History|Karen Armstrong|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1403181902s/27306.jpg|131885] by Karen Armstrong ) is a scholar of Islamic history in particular. Despite the fact that Cook does an exellent job of taking us through all of the myriad cultures of the world, and asking what happened there and why (much of the time the answer is 'geography'), I did not like this book. I did like his summary of one Arab ethnographer's reasoning behind differences in peoples: the dumb-blonde theory (northern lattitudes produce "blonde and stupid" people while southern lattitude light levels produce "black and foolish" peoples, explaining why peoples from the middle range lattitudes have moderate skin tones and the sciences. I particularly disliked his use of Britain as a model country: why not one of the Scandinavian island nations, which by most measures does even better for lawfullness, stable government and economic well-being? Turns out that Cook, like Armstrong, ( please read also: [b:Islam: A Short History|27306|Islam A Short History|Karen Armstrong|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1403181902s/27306.jpg|131885] by Karen Armstrong ) is a scholar of Islamic history in particular. In "A brief history of the human race" geeft Michael Cook een kort overzicht van de geschiedenis in verschillende delen van de wereld. Het belangrijkste aandachtspunt is de vraag hoe de verschillende gebieden met elkaar te vergelijken zijn. Niet zo indrukwekkend als het boek van Jared Diamond maar toch de moeite waard. Sweeping across the whole of human history over the last 10,000 years, this work addresses some of the most fascinating questions about our past. Why did we first emerge as a species in Africa and why was the Ancient Near East the place where civilization took off? Why did civilizations develop, and also decline, at markedly different rates around the world? How did the great world religions arise and the worship of many gods give way to just one? And why did Britain, peripheral to world history for millennia, play such a dominant role in the last few centuries? Michael Cook explores the great forces that have shaped our past - natural disasters, human ingenuity, availability of resources - and along the way zooms in on some of the details of history, from the arcane burial customs of ancient Mexican kings and the erotic temple carvings of India, to the design of snuff boxes and the forging of antiques in ancient Rome. Cook shows that humankind has rarely been slow to take advantage of an opportunity when it has come within grasp - from the domestication of the horse to the exploration of space. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
En cuatrocientas páginas rebosantes de ideas, el historiador Michael Cook nos ofrece una breve historia de la humanidad desde el surgimiento de la agricultura, hace unos diez mil años, hasta el presente.A partir de elementos tan dispares como el sistema matrimonial de los aborígenes australianos, los calendarios mesoamericanos, el culto a los antepasados en la China tradicional, las cortesanas de los templos medievales hindúes, la etnografía musulmana o los ataques a las torres gemelas, el prestigioso historiador Michael Cook compone una historia coherente de la humanidad, explicando tanto sus elementos comunes como sus peculiaridades y proporcionando, al mismo tiempo, unas respuestas convincentes a las preguntas fundamentales de la historia del hombre. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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