The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection

by Tamim Ansary

Book Overview

A sweeping global human history that describes the separate beginnings of the world's major cultural movements--Confucianism, Islam, Judeo-Christianity and Nomadism--and the dramatic, sometimes ruinous, sometimes transformative effects of their ever closer intertwinement that is the defining feature of our world today.
Forty thousand years ago, the human species existed as thousands of small, virtually autonomous bands, roaming a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610397967
• ISBN13: 9781610397964
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"