The Great Divide by Peter Watson
The rise and fall of the great civilisations and what this meant for mankind.
The past, Peter Watson argues in this magnificent history of sixteen and a half millenia, is a whole series of foreign countries - and explaining the differences between them helps accounts for just about everything we take for granted in the here and now..Impossible, of course, to summarise this massive book in a small review. Sufficient, perhaps, to say that the year's first necessary read is here. -- Christopher Bray WORD MAGAZINE In drawing together evidence from complex strands of archaeology, climatology, genetics and religious symbolism, Watson is compulsively speculative. -- Peter Forbes THE INDEPENDENT Synthesizers like Watson play a valuable role in disseminating and linking up specialist research findings -- Peter Coates TLS 20120608 An ingenious work about the course of human history...The author seems to know everything about his subject and to hold an opinion on every issue, which he enthusiastically passes on...fascinating KIRKUS REVIEWS
Peter Watson was born in 1943 and educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome. He was deputy editor of NEW SOCIETY and spent four years as part of the 'Insight' team at the SUNDAY TIMES. He was New York correspondent of THE TIMES and has written for the OBSERVER, THE NEW YORK TIMES, PUNCH and the SPECTATOR. He is the author of 13 books and has presented several television programmes about the arts. Since 1998 he has been a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780297845584 |
| ISBN 10 | 0297845586 |
| Title | The Great Divide |
| Author | Peter Watson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2012-01-12 |
| Number of pages | 640 |
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