The Undivided Past Humanity Beyond Our Differences |
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| Author:
| Cannadine, David |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4708-4456-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2013 |
| Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | CD-Audio |
| List Price: | USD $105.00 |
Book Description:
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Investigating the six most pervasive categories of human difference—religion, nation, class, gender, race, and civilization—Cannadine asks how determinative each of them has really been over the course of history. Without denying their motivational power, he reveals that in the long term none has proven remotely as divisive as the absolutist cries of us vs. them would suggest, whether Christian vs. Muslim, landed gentry vs. peasantry, or Jews vs. Aryan race . For most of...
More DescriptionInvestigating the six most pervasive categories of human difference—religion, nation, class, gender, race, and civilization—Cannadine asks how determinative each of them has really been over the course of history. Without denying their motivational power, he reveals that in the long term none has proven remotely as divisive as the absolutist cries of us vs. them would suggest, whether Christian vs. Muslim, landed gentry vs. peasantry, or Jews vs. Aryan race . For most of recorded time, these same differences were experienced as just one identity among others. History must be reimagined to include the countless fruitful interactions across these lines.