The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay by Béla Petheö, William H. McNeill

The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay

Béla Petheö, William H. McNeill with William H. McNeill (Illustrator)

missing page info Add in missing page information • first pub 1963 (editions)

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The Rise of the West , winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially...

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