On Deep History and the Brain

by Daniel Lord Smail

Book Overview

When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. Daniel Lord Smail argues that in the wake of the Decade of the Brain and the best-selling historical work of scientists like Jared Diamond, the time has come for fundamentally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520258126
• ISBN13: 9780520258129
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"