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• Winner of Shortlisted for the British Academy's 2017 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Transcultural Understanding.

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9780198744429

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A mix of wide and deep learning and rigorous argument, beautifully written ... [a] delightful and indispensable book. John Gray, Literary Review

This is big history to the utmost degree, an attempt to unite science and history in a single explanatory scheme much like the work of Jared Diamond. Excessively erudite, extraordinarily wide-ranging, and written with great clarity... Fernandez-Armesto is sure to stir up debate, lure others into similar speculation, and perhaps strengthen the chance of closer mutual endeavors between the physical sciences and the humanities. --Publishers Weekly

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Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His work has been recognized as pioneering across a very wide range of fields, including global history, environmental history, colonial history, maritime history, religious history, art history, the history of ideas, Mediterranean history, Spanish history, American history, the history of cartography, and the history of language. He has published numerous best-selling history books, including Civilizations, Millennium, 1492: The Year Our World Began, and Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration, also published by Oxford University Press, which was awarded the World History Association Prize.

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