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Plough, Sword, and Book : The Structure of Human History
Plough Sword and Book The Structure of Human History
Author: Ernest Gellner
"Philosophical anthropology on the grandest scale. . . .Gellner has produced a sharp challenge to his colleagues and a thrilling book for the non-specialist. Deductive history on this scale cannot be proved right or wrong, but this is Gellner writing, incisive, iconoclastic, witty and expert. His scenario compels our attention."--Adam Kuper, ...  more »

"A thoughtful and lively meditation upon probably the greatest transformation in human history, upon the difficult problems it poses and the scant resources it has left us to solve them."--Charles Larmore, New Republic
ISBN-13: 9780226287027
ISBN-10: 0226287025
Publication Date: 3/2/1992
Pages: 288
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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