A history of humanity : the evolution of the human system
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A history of humanity : the evolution of the human system
Cambridge University Press, 2020
- : pbk
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  Niigata
  Toyama
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  Nagano
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  Netherlands
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly global social discourse - and links processes of social evolution to the dynamics of biological and cultural evolution. Throughout each of these shifts, migration and social diversity have been central, and social institutions have existed in a delicate balance, serving not just their own members but undergoing regulation from society. Integrating approaches from world history, environmental studies, biological and cultural evolution, social anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary linguistics, Patrick Manning offers an unprecedented account of the evolution of humans and our complex social system and explores the crises facing that human system today.
Table of Contents
- List of maps
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Introduction: 1. The human system
- Part II. Pleistocene Evolution: 2. Biological and cultural evolution
- 3. Speech and social evolution
- 4. Systemic expansion
- 5. Production and confederation
- Part III. Holocene Evolution: 6. Society: network vs hierarchy
- 7. Collisions and contraction
- 8. From global networks to capitalism
- Part IV. Anthropocene Evolution: 9. Systemic threats
- 10. Hope for adaptations
- Appendix. Frameworks for analysis
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.
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