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The great divide : history and human nature in the old world and the new / Peter Watson

An analysis of the parallel development of societies in the Old and New Worlds from 15,000 B.C. to 1500 A.D. This multidisciplinary study explores how geographical isolation influenced the evolution of distinct human civilisations following the end of the Ice Age.

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