The Rise of the West A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B09VMZTZ4F | 2022 | 30 hours and 55 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 849 MB
The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history, 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 changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world history to support this claim.