Human Race Ian Mortimer

Name: Human Race By Ian Mortimer
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Summary

Sweeping through the last thousand years of human development, this book is a treasure chest of the lunar leaps and lightbulb moments that, for better or worse, have sent humanity swerving down a path that no one could ever have predicted.

Human Race Summary

Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth by Ian Mortimer

We are an astonishing species. Over the past millennium of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, woman's rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond recognition.

Sweeping through the last thousand years of human development, Human Race is a treasure chest of the lunar leaps and lightbulb moments that, for better or worse, have sent humanity swerving down a path that no one could ever have predicted.

But which of the last ten centuries saw the greatest changes in human history?

History's greatest tour guide, Ian Mortimer, knows what answer he would give. But what's yours?

Human Race Reviews

Mortimer is an entertaining guide on this superb time-travel journey of human innovations -- Julia Richardson * Daily Mail *
An ambitious study of the last millennium * Evening Standard *
An excellent romp through the past millennium of British (and particularly English) history... Highly entertaining, well written and packed with lively characters and surprising facts. -- Ian Morris * BBC History Magazine *
I loved this book... It will enable you to understand your past, your place in it and that of your ancestors as never before. A modern classic -- FIVE STARS, James Delingpole * Mail on Sunday *
Provocative and enjoyable... Almost every page of this engaging book sets your mind racing -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *

About Ian Mortimer

Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guides to Medieval England, Elizabethan England, Restoration Britain and Regency Britain as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies, and numerous scholarly books and articles on subjects ranging in date from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998 and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2015. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize in 2004 and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.

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GOR010923666

ISBN 13

9780099593386

ISBN 10

0099593386

Title

Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth by Ian Mortimer

Author

Ian Mortimer

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20151001

Number of pages

432

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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins