Rise of the West : A History of the Human Community Condition:Very Good 'An unsettling

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"--The New Yorker "[The Revenge of Geography] serves the facts straight up

and co-author Gary Ezzo

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Rise of the West : A History of the Human Community Condition:Very Good 'An unsettlingThe 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 independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social