Recommended Age:
15
+
Best for adult readers who enjoy wide-ranging, idea-driven nonfiction that challenges assumptions about history, human nature, and civilization.
About the Book
A sweeping account of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens through the Agricultural and Scientific Revolutions to the present, exploring the ideas and structures that shaped civilization.
Content Ratings
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Moderate Themes
Sustained themes of humanity's capacity for mass cooperation, the constructed nature of social institutions, and the philosophical implications of technological development.
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Mild Violence
References to historical violence, conquest, and the extinction of other human species, discussed analytically.
Engagement:
Genre:
Nonfiction
Published:
2011
Page Count:
443
