Tamim Ansary

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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and ConnectionHardcover, 1 October 2019

The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
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Print Length
448 pages
Language
English
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Date Published
1 Oct 2019
ISBN-10
1610397967
ISBN-13
9781610397964

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From language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age
Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic (battles won), geographic (farmers thrive), or anthropogenic (humans change the planet) as it is narrative.
Many thousands of years ago, when we existed only as countless small autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers widely distributed through the wilderness, we began inventing stories--to organize for survival, to find purpose and meaning, to explain the unfathomable. Ultimately these became the basis for empires, civilizations, and cultures. And when various narratives began to collide and overlap, the encounters produced everything from confusion, chaos, and war to cultural efflorescence, religious awakenings, and intellectual breakthroughs.
Through vivid stories studded with insights, Tamim Ansary illuminates the world-historical consequences of the unique human capacity to invent and communicate abstract ideas. In doing so, he also explains our ever-more-intertwined present: the narratives now shaping us, the reasons we still battle one another, and the future we may yet create.

Product Details

Author:
Tamim Ansary
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 October 2019
Dimensions:
24.13 x 16.26 x 4.06 cm
ISBN-10:
1610397967
ISBN-13:
9781610397964
Language:
English
Pages:
448
Publisher:
Weight:
703.07 gm

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