The swerve how the world became modern
In this work, the author has crafted both a work of history and a story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in...
| Main Author: | Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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