The invention of prehistory empire, violence, and our obsession with human origins
"In this remarkable and enlivening study, Stefanos Geroulanos traces the development of our modern fascination with humanity's deep past, and lays out that fascination's deadly costs." --Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century An eminent historian tells the...
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2024]
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| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Civilization |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Prehistoric peoples. | |
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