| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-460) and index. |
| Summary |
"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 story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity--and how, for three centuries, ideas of prehistory have been used to justify devastating violence against others. |
| Subject |
Human beings -- Origin.
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Civilization -- History.
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Prehistoric peoples.
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| ISBN |
9781324091455 (hardcover) |
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1324091452 (hardcover) |
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